ProgrammingForums Data Breach (2015)
Programming Forums
mediumXposedOrNot
Disclosed
December 1, 2015
3769 days ago
Records
707.6K
Confirmed
Root Cause
Hacking
Industry
Technology
Description
ProgrammingForums.org, an online community for developers and enthusiasts, underwent a data breach in late 2015. The breach disclosed the personal details of roughly 707k members. Among the data exposed were email and IP addresses, usernames, and passwords that were safeguarded using salted MD5 hashing algorithms.
Exposed Data Types
Exposed Data
PasswordsIP AddressesEmail addressesUser names