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ProgrammingForums

Breaches
1
1 verified
Records Exposed
707K
Total across all breaches
Data Types Leaked
4
1 high risk
Latest Breach
2015
ProgrammingForums

Breach History

ProgrammingForums
Dec 2015Critical
707.4K
Records exposed
4
Data types leaked
Verified
Status

In approximately late 2015, the programming forum at programmingforums.org suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 707k unique user records. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes of passwords. The site was previously reported as compromised on the Vigilante.pw breached database directory.

Exposed Data Types
Email addressesIP addressesPasswordsUsernames
Incident Status
Data breachYes
Data brokerNo
Policy contradictionsNo
Exposed Data Types
Email addressesLow risk
IP addressesMedium risk
PasswordsHigh risk
UsernamesLow risk