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dBforums

Disclosed Sep 20, 20233 years ago363,468 accountsUnverified

In July 2016, a data breach of the now defunct database forum "dBforums" appeared for sale alongside several others hacked from the parent company, Penton . The breach of the vBulletin based forum contained 363k unique email addresses alongside usernames, IP addresses, dates of birth and salted MD5 password hashes.

What is known

People affected363,468 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
DisclosedSep 20, 2023
HappenedJul 4, 2016
AttackHacking
Data exposedDates of birth, Emails, 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: dBforumshaveibeenpwned.com · Aggregator

Notices filed

WhereFiledPeople
Have I Been Pwnedaccounts in the dataSep 20, 2023363,468
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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