Bleach Anime Forum Data Breach

What happened

In 2015, the now defunct independent forum for the Bleach Anime series suffered a data breach that exposed 144k user records. The impacted data included usernames, email addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Bleach Anime Forum 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 Bleach Anime Forum — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.