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Breach occurred 2019-06-13Verifiedsocialengineered.net
What happened
In June 2019, the "Art of Human Hacking" site Social Engineered suffered a data breach. The breach of the MyBB forum was published on a rival hacking forum and included 89k unique email addresses spread across 55k forum users and other tables in the database. The exposed data also included usernames, IP addresses, private messages and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Social Engineered data breach occurred on June 13, 2019. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on June 23, 2019.
89,392 accounts were affected by the Social Engineered data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Social Engineered breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Private messages, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Social Engineered breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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