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Breach occurred 2016-12-05Verifiedmrexcel.com
What happened
In December 2016, the forum for the Microsoft Excel tips and solutions site Mr Excel suffered a data breach. The hack of the vBulletin forum led to the exposure of over 366k accounts along with email and IP addresses, dates of birth and salted passwords hashed with MD5. The owner of the MrExcel forum subsequently self-submitted the data to HIBP.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The MrExcel data breach occurred on December 5, 2016. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on January 22, 2017.
366,140 accounts were affected by the MrExcel data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The MrExcel breach exposed the following data types: Dates of birth, Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Social connections, Usernames, Website activity.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the MrExcel breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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