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DaniWeb

Disclosed Dec 28, 20169 years ago1,131,636 accountsUnverified

In late 2015, the technology and social site DaniWeb suffered a data breach. The attack resulted in the disclosure of 1.1 million accounts including email and IP addresses which were also accompanied by salted MD5 hashes of passwords. However, DaniWeb have advised that "the breached password hashes and salts are incorrect" and that they have since switched to new infrastructure and software.

What is known

People affected1,131,636 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
DisclosedDec 28, 2016
HappenedDec 1, 2015
AttackNot stated
Data exposedEmails, IP addresses, Passwords
SectorTech
StatusUnverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization
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Sources

Source
Have I Been Pwned: DaniWebhaveibeenpwned.com · Aggregator

Notices filed

WhereFiledPeople
Have I Been Pwnedaccounts in the dataDec 28, 20161,131,636
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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