RuneScape Boards Data Breach

What happened

In around 2011, the now defunct RuneScape Boards forum (also known as RSBoards) suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The vBulletin-based service exposed 223k unique email addresses along with usernames, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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