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Malwarebytes data breach (2014)

In November 2014, the Malwarebytes forum was hacked and 111k member records were exposed. The IP.Board forum included email and IP addresses, birth dates and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked.

Victim
Malwarebytes
records
111.6K
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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 2014-11-15, Malwarebytes was affected by a data breach. Approximately 111,623 accounts were exposed. In November 2014, the Malwarebytes forum was hacked and 111k member records were exposed. The IP.Board forum included email and IP addresses, birth dates and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked.

Sources

  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Malwarebytes
  2. malwarebytes.orghttps://malwarebytes.org

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