MajorGeeks Data Breach

What happened

In November 2015, almost 270k accounts from the MajorGeeks support forum were breached. The accounts were being actively sold and traded online and included email addresses, salted password hashes and IP addresses.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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