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Programming Forums

Disclosed Jul 1, 2017707,432 accountsUnverified

In approximately late 2015, the programming forum at programmingforums.org suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 707k unique user records. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes of passwords. The site was previously reported as compromised on the Vigilante.pw breached database directory.

What is known

People affected707,432 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
DisclosedJul 1, 2017
HappenedDec 1, 2015
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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