Data breach
RuneScape Boards: a data breach
In around 2011, the now defunct RuneScape Boards forum (also known as RSBoards) suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data . The vBulletin-based service exposed 223k unique email addresses along with usernames, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.
The record
- Organisation
- RuneScape Boards →
- Identity
- RuneScape Boardsidentified by its domain in a verified breach record
- Records affected
- 222,762 records
- Data exposed
- Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Usernames
- Sector
- Not recorded
- Occurred
- 2011-12-26
- Disclosed
- 2026-03-23
- First recorded here
- 2026-09-09
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Sources (1)
One source so far.
- Have I Been Pwned ↗First reported
2026-03-23