Bolt Data Breach

What happened

In approximately March 2017, the file sharing website Bolt suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 995k unique user records. The data was sourced from their vBulletin forum and contained email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 password hashes. The site was previously reported as compromised on the Vigilante.pw breached database directory.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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