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HongFire

Disclosed Feb 5, 20179 years ago999,991 accountsUnverified

In March 2015, the anime and manga forum HongFire suffered a data breach. The hack of their vBulletin forum led to the exposure of 1 million accounts along with email and IP addresses, usernames, dates of birth and salted MD5 passwords.

What is known

People affected999,991 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
DisclosedFeb 5, 2017
HappenedMar 1, 2015
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: HongFirehaveibeenpwned.com · Aggregator

Notices filed

WhereFiledPeople
Have I Been Pwnedaccounts in the dataFeb 5, 2017999,991
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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