D3Scene Data Breach

What happened

In January 2016, the gaming website D3Scene, suffered a data breach. The compromised vBulletin forum exposed 569k million email addresses, IP address, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your D3Scene 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 D3Scene — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.