Web Hosting Talk Data Breach

What happened

In July 2016, the Web Hosting Talk forum suffered a data breach that was subsequently listed for sale. The breach of the vBulletin based forum exposed 515k user records including usernames, email addresses, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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