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Movie Forums data breach (2022)

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.

Victim
Movie Forums
records
39.9K
SectorRetail

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 2022-11-24, Movie Forums was affected by a data breach. Approximately 39,914 accounts were exposed. 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.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#MovieForums
  2. movieforums.comhttps://movieforums.com

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