Programming Forums Data Breach

What happened

In approximately late 2015, the programming forum at programmingforums.org suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 707k unique user records. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes of passwords. The site was previously reported as compromised on the Vigilante.pw breached database directory.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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