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Breach occurred 2022-11-24Verifiedmovieforums.com
What happened
In December 2022, the Movie Forums website suffered a data breach that affected 40k users. The breach exposed email and IP addresses, usernames, dates of birth and passwords stored as easily crackable salted MD5 hashes. The data was subsequently posted a popular clear web hacking forum.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Movie Forums data breach occurred on November 24, 2022. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on December 8, 2023.
39,914 accounts were affected by the Movie Forums data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Movie Forums breach exposed the following data types: Dates of birth, Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Movie Forums breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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