BreachForums – 212,156 breached accounts

In November 2022, the well-known hacking forum “BreachForums” was itself, breached. Later the following year, the operator of the website was arrested and the site seized by law enforcement agencies. The breach exposed 212k records including usernames, IP and email addresses, private messages between site members and passwords stored as argon2 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to “breached_db_person”.

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The Role of Mentorship in Cyber Threat Intelligence (Part 2)

The Role of Mentorship in Cyber Threat Intelligence (Part 2)

While we can all benefit from professional mentorship, mentoring needs will vary from person to person based largely on where they are in their career. In this blog series we introduced mentorship concepts, the role and responsibilities of mentors and mentees, and provided resources on areas to engage to find prospective mentors, both formally through organizational program and through industry specific events or initiatives.

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BookCrossing – 1,582,323 breached accounts

In August 2022, the book social networking site BookCrossing disclosed a data breach that dated back to a database backup from November 2012. The incident exposed almost 1.6M records including names, usernames, email and IP addresses, dates of birth and plain text passwords.

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Tigo – 700,394 breached accounts

In Mid-2023, 300GB of data containing over 100M records from the Chinese video chat platform “Tigo” dating back to March that year was discovered. The data contained over 700k unique names, usernames, email and IP addresses, genders, profile photos and private messages. Tigo did not respond to multiple attempts to disclose the incident.

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