Demon Forums Data Breach

What happened

In February 2019, the hacking forum Demon Forums suffered a data breach. The compromise of the vBulletin forum exposed 52k unique email addresses alongside usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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