Cracked.to Data Breach

What happened

In July 2019, the hacking website Cracked.to suffered a data breach. There were 749k unique email addresses spread across 321k forum users and other tables in the database. A rival hacking website claimed responsibility for breaching the MyBB based forum which disclosed email and IP addresses, usernames, private messages and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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