BreachForums

Disclosed Jul 26, 2023212,156 accountsUnverified

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./a>.

What is known

People affected	212,156 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
Disclosed	Jul 26, 2023
Happened	Nov 29, 2022
Attack	Hacking
Data exposed	EmailsIP addressesPasswordsDates of birthMessages
Sector	Tech
Status	Unverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization
Check your email	Have I Been Pwned

Sources

Aggregatorhaveibeenpwned.com

Have I Been Pwned: BreachForums

Notices filed

Accounts in the dataJul 26, 2023

Have I Been Pwned212,156 people

Other breaches at BreachForums

BreachForums user database leaked, exposing 323,988 membersExposed data exposed emails, passwords, dates of birth, messages, names and IP addresses.Exposed data324K affectedTechUnverifiedJan 10

History of this record

Added2026-09-25

First recordedby backfillSource

First seen 2026-09-25 (Have I Been Pwned). Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.

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