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Breach occurred 2016-07-03Verifiedmac-forums.com
What happened
In July 2016, the self-proclaimed "Ultimate Source For Your Mac" website Mac Forums suffered a data breach. The vBulletin-based system exposed over 326k usernames, email and IP addresses, dates of birth and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. The data was later discovered being traded on a popular hacking forum. Mac Forums did not respond when contacted about the incident via their contact us form.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Mac Forums data breach occurred on July 3, 2016. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on October 29, 2018.
326,714 accounts were affected by the Mac Forums data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Mac Forums breach exposed the following data types: Dates of birth, Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Mac Forums breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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