ShellCodeX Breach Report
Open Subtitles Data Breach
opensubtitles.org
Verified breach
Passwords exposed
Accounts exposed
6,783,158
Breach date
01 Aug 2021
Added to tracker
19 Jan 2022
Data classes
5
What happened
In August 2021, the subtitling website Open Subtitles suffered a data breach and subsequent ransom demand. The breach exposed almost 7M subscribers' personal data including email and IP addresses, usernames, the country of the user and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes.
Exposed data
Email addresses
Geographic locations
IP addresses
Passwords
Usernames
Recommended actions
- Change your Open Subtitles 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 Open Subtitles — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
- Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.
Am I affected?
Check whether your email address appears in this breach.
Check on HIBP
