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Have I Been Pwned allows you to search across multiple data breaches to see if your email address or phone number has been compromised.

BreachForums

In November 2022, the well-known hacking forum “BreachForums” was itself, breached. Later the following year, the operator of the website was arrested and the site seized by law enforcement agencies. The breach exposed 212k records including usernames, IP and email addresses, private messages between site members and passwords stored as argon2 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to “breached_db_person”.

Breach date: 29 November 2022

Date added to HIBP: 26 July 2023

Compromised accounts: 212,156

Compromised data: Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Private messages, Usernames

comment: I guess the hackers aren’t so lucky with their DMs either.

    • DarkMatterStyx English
      3•1 year ago

      That is the name of the website linked… I hate the word/phrase, but, it is what it is now.