Data breach
Web Hosting Talk: a data breach
In July 2016, the Web Hosting Talk forum suffered a data breach that was subsequently listed for sale . The breach of the vBulletin based forum exposed 515k user records including usernames, email addresses, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.
The record
- Organisation
- Web Hosting Talk →
- Identity
- Web Hosting Talkidentified by its domain in a verified breach record
- Records affected
- 515,149 records
- Data exposed
- Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Usernames
- Sector
- Not recorded
- Occurred
- 2016-07-01
- Disclosed
- 2025-12-17
- First recorded here
- 2026-09-09
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Sources (1)
One source so far.
- Have I Been Pwned ↗First reported
2025-12-17