devkitPro Data Breach

What happened

In February 2019, the devkitPro forum suffered a data breach. The phpBB based forum had 1,508 unique email addresses exposed in the breach alongside forum posts, private messages and passwords stored as weak salted hashes. The data breach was self-submitted to HIBP by the forum operator.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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