DaniWeb

Disclosed Dec 28, 20161,131,636 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 affected	1,131,636 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
Disclosed	Dec 28, 2016
Happened	Dec 1, 2015
Attack	Not stated
Data exposed	EmailsIP addressesPasswords
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: DaniWeb

Notices filed

Accounts in the dataDec 28, 2016

Have I Been Pwned1,131,636 people

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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