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Bitcoin Talk data breach (2015)

In May 2015, the Bitcoin forum Bitcoin Talk was hacked and over 500k unique email addresses were exposed. The attack led to the exposure of a raft of personal data including usernames, email and IP addresses, genders, birth dates, security questions and MD5 hashes of their answers plus hashes of…

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Bitcoin Talk
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501.4K
SectorFinance

Imported from Have I Been Pwned — pending editorial review and translation to French. The summary below is machine-extracted; consult the source for details.

In 2015-05-22, Bitcoin Talk was affected by a data breach. Approximately 501,407 accounts were exposed. In May 2015, the Bitcoin forum Bitcoin Talk was hacked and over 500k unique email addresses were exposed. The attack led to the exposure of a raft of personal data including usernames, email and IP addresses, genders, birth dates, security questions and MD5 hashes of their answers plus hashes of…

Sources

  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#BitcoinTalk
  2. bitcointalk.orghttps://bitcointalk.org

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