SweClockers.com Data Breach

What happened

In early 2015, the Swedish tech news site SweClockers was hacked and 255k accounts were exposed. The attack led to the exposure of usernames, email addresses and salted hashes of passwords stored with a combination of MD5 and SHA512.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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