Astropid Data Breach

What happened

In December 2013, the vBulletin forum for the social engineering site known as "AstroPID" was breached and leaked publicly. The site provided tips on fraudulently obtaining goods and services, often by providing a legitimate "PID" or Product Information Description. The breach resulted in nearly 6k user accounts and over 220k private messages between forum members being exposed.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Astropid password immediately, and update it anywhere you reused the same password.
• Enable two-factor authentication on the affected account and on your critical services (email, banking).
• Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing Astropid — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.