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SocialEngineered

Breaches
1
1 verified
Records Exposed
89K
Total across all breaches
Data Types Leaked
5
1 high risk
Latest Breach
2019
SocialEngineered

Breach History

SocialEngineered
Jun 2019Critical
89.4K
Records exposed
5
Data types leaked
Verified
Status

In June 2019, the "Art of Human Hacking" site Social Engineered suffered a data breach. The breach of the MyBB forum was published on a rival hacking forum and included 89k unique email addresses spread across 55k forum users and other tables in the database. The exposed data also included usernames, IP addresses, private messages and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.

Exposed Data Types
Email addressesIP addressesPasswordsPrivate messagesUsernames
Incident Status
Data breachYes
Data brokerNo
Policy contradictionsNo
Exposed Data Types
Email addressesLow risk
IP addressesMedium risk
PasswordsHigh risk
Private messagesLow risk
UsernamesLow risk