The Kodi Foundation – 400,635 breached accounts

In February 2023, The Kodi Foundation suffered a data breach that exposed more than 400k user records. Attributed to an account belonging to “a trusted but currently inactive member of the forum admin team”, the breach involved the administrator account creating a database backup that was subsequently downloaded before being sold on a hacking forum. The breach exposed email and IP addresses, usernames, genders and passwords stored as MyBB salted hashes. The Kodi Foundation elected to self-submit impacted email addresses to HIBP.

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Details Matter

Details Matter

Phishing attacks are quite common now. Businesses with apathetic attitudes are easy prey for threat actors that can cripple operations. We’re seeing disruptions at government agencies, critical infrastructure, academic institutions that teach computer programming, and right down to small private companies that rely on inexperienced online content providers. If you have your head buried in the sand, you may still believe that most threats are naturally occurring in the cyber space. It makes me sick how many companies talk about this as the new normal. Getting hacked isn’t the new normal. Not having the proper defenses in place is.

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