Data breach
The Botting Network: a data breach
In August 2012, the forum for making money with botting "The Botting Network" suffered a data breach that exposed 96k user records . The now defunct vBulletin forum leaked 96k email addresses, usernames, dates of birth and salted MD5 password hashes.
The record
- Organisation
- The Botting Network →
- Identity
- The Botting Networkidentified by its domain in a verified breach record
- Records affected
- 96,320 records
- Data exposed
- Dates of birth, Email addresses, Passwords, Usernames
- Sector
- Not recorded
- Occurred
- 2012-08-12
- Disclosed
- 2025-12-18
- First recorded here
- 2026-09-09
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Sources (1)
One source so far.
- Have I Been Pwned ↗First reported
2025-12-18