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BreachForums

Disclosed Jul 26, 20233 years ago212,156 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 affected212,156 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
DisclosedJul 26, 2023
HappenedNov 29, 2022
AttackHacking
Data exposedEmails, IP addresses, Passwords, Dates of birth, Messages
SectorTech
StatusUnverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization
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Sources

Source
Have I Been Pwned: BreachForumshaveibeenpwned.com · Aggregator

Notices filed

WhereFiledPeople
Have I Been Pwnedaccounts in the dataJul 26, 2023212,156

Other breaches at BreachForums

BreachAffected
BreachForums user database leaked, exposing 323,988 membersJan 108 months agoExposed dataUnverified324K
History of this record
  • 2026-09-25 · added · backfill source

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

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