ForumCommunity Data Breach

What happened

In approximately mid-2016, the Italian-based service for creating forums known as ForumCommunity suffered a data breach. The incident impacted over 776k unique email addresses along with usernames and unsalted MD5 password hashes. No response was received from ForumCommunity when contacted.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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