Social Engineered Data Breach

What happened

In June 2019, the "Art of Human Hacking" site Social Engineered suffered a data breach. The breach of the MyBB forum was published on a rival hacking forum and included 89k unique email addresses spread across 55k forum users and other tables in the database. The exposed data also included usernames, IP addresses, private messages and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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