ShellCodeX Breach Report
Win7Vista Forum Data Breach
win7vista.com
Verified breach
Passwords exposed
Accounts exposed
202,683
Breach date
03 Sep 2013
Added to tracker
01 Jun 2014
Data classes
8
What happened
In September 2013, the Win7Vista Windows forum (since renamed to the "Beyond Windows 9" forum) was hacked and later had its internal database dumped. The dump included over 200k members’ personal information and other internal data extracted from the forum.
Exposed data
Email addresses
Instant messenger identities
IP addresses
Names
Passwords
Private messages
Usernames
Website activity
Recommended actions
- Change your Win7Vista Forum 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 Win7Vista Forum — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
- Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.
Am I affected?
Check whether your email address appears in this breach.
Check on HIBP
