Loading
Loading
We use strictly necessary cookies to run this site, and analytics cookies to understand how it's used. See our Privacy Policy for details.
Breach occurred 2014-03-29Verifiedforums.boxee.com
What happened
In March 2014, the home theatre PC software maker Boxee had their forums compromised in an attack. The attackers obtained the entire vBulletin MySQL database and promptly posted it for download on the Boxee forum itself. The data included 160k users, password histories, private messages and a variety of other data exposed across nearly 200 publicly exposed tables.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Boxee data breach occurred on March 29, 2014. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on March 30, 2014.
158,093 accounts were affected by the Boxee data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Boxee breach exposed the following data types: Dates of birth, Email addresses, Geographic locations, Historical passwords, Instant messenger identities, IP addresses, Passwords, Private messages, User website URLs, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Boxee breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
Use KazaSec's free Email Breach Checker (/tools/breach-check) to check whether a specific email address has surfaced in the Boxee breach, or any other known breach — the tool never stores what you search.
Our free Email Breach Checker tells you whether a specific email address has surfaced in this breach — or any other known breach — without ever storing what you search.
Check your email →Talk to us about this
We help organizations find and fix the gaps that lead to a breach, before they do.