CrackingForum Data Breach

What happened

In approximately mid-2016, the cracking community forum known as CrackingForum suffered a data breach. The vBulletin based forum exposed 660k email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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