46,966
Records Exposed
Nov 2019
Date of Breach
Database
Breach Type
Aug 2024
Added to Database
About This Breach
In November 2019, the Serbian technology news website Benchmark experienced a breach of its forum, exposing 93,000 customer records. The compromised data included IP and email addresses, usernames, and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. A forum administrator later explained that the breach occurred because the forum had been running on an outdated vBulletin instance. This incident underscores the importance of maintaining up-to-date software and implementing strong cybersecurity measures to protect user data and prevent such breaches.
Compromised Data Types
Country
Serbia
Language
Serbo-Croatian
Password Storage
MD5(Salt)
Category
News
Indexed On
Aug 27, 2024
Breach Type
Database
What Should You Do?
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Sign Up for Pro- Change your password immediately on Benchmark and any other site where you used the same password. Use a unique, strong password for each account.
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- Use a password manager to generate and store unique, strong passwords for every account.
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