dBforums Data Breach (2016)

A significant data breach occurred at dBforums, a now-defunct database forum in July 2016, . This breach surfaced when data from dBforums appeared for sale along with data from several other entities hacked from the parent company, Penton. The breach compromised 363K unique accounts and entailed exposure of various personal information including usernames, email addresses, IP addresses, dates of birth, and password hashes - salted MD5.