The Candid Board Data Breach

What happened

In September 2015, the non-consensual voyeurism site "The Candid Board" suffered a data breach. The hack of the vBulletin forum led to the exposure of over 178k accounts along with email and IP addresses, dates of birth and salted passwords hashed with MD5.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your The Candid Board 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 The Candid Board — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Exposed identity data raises identity-theft risk — consider credit monitoring or a credit freeze.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.