ForumCommunity Data Breach

What Happened

In approximately mid-2016, the Italian-based service for creating forums known as ForumCommunity suffered a data breach. The incident impacted over 776k unique email addresses along with usernames and unsalted MD5 password hashes. No response was received from ForumCommunity when contacted.

Compromised Data

  • Email addresses
  • Passwords
  • Usernames

Recommended Actions

Change Your Password

If you haven’t already changed the password affected by this breach, do so immediately on every account where it was used.

Enable Two-Factor Authentication

Wherever 2FA is supported, add an extra layer of security to your account.

Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:
    776.6 thousand

  • Breach Occurred:
    June 2016

  • Added to HIBP:
    5 Dec 2018

Recommended Actions

Change Your Password

If you haven’t already changed the password affected by this breach, do so immediately on every account where it was used.

Enable Two-Factor Authentication

Wherever 2FA is supported, add an extra layer of security to your account.