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Creative

Disclosed Jun 7, 2018483,015 accountsUnverified

In May 2018, the forum for Singaporean hardware company Creative Technology suffered a data breach which resulted in the disclosure of 483k unique email addresses. Running on an old version of vBulletin, the breach also disclosed usernames, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes. After being notified of the incident, Creative permanently shut down the forum.

What is known

People affected483,015 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
DisclosedJun 7, 2018
HappenedMay 1, 2018
AttackNot stated
Data exposedEmailsIP addressesPasswords
SectorTech
StatusUnverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization
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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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