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2013 YouHack breach resurfaces with millions of credentials

Original title: 2013 breach at Russian cybercrime forum resurfaces with millions of victims’ credentials

DataBreaches.netby Dissent ()2 min read
AI summary · x-ai/grok-4.7Summaries by Vani AI

Have I Been Pwned cataloged 7.2 million emails, including about 107,000 YouHack members’ unsalted MD5 hashes.

A 2013 breach of the Russian-language cybercrime forum YouHack has been newly cataloged, exposing members’ login details and credentials they had posted about other people. Have I Been Pwned added the breach and recorded 7.2 million unique email addresses. About 107,000 belonged to forum members and included usernames, IP addresses and mostly unsalted MD5 password hashes.

Key facts
  • Have I Been Pwned recorded 7.2 million unique email addresses.
  • About 107,000 addresses belonged to YouHack forum members.
  • Member records included usernames, IP addresses and mostly unsalted MD5 hashes.
  • The data also included credentials posted about other victims.
Security assessment · AI, from the article

Impact: Forum logins and millions of other victims’ credentials exposed

What to do
  1. 1.Check whether addresses appear in the Have I Been Pwned YouHack listing.
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From the original article

2 min read at databreaches.net

Connor Jones reports: A 2013 breach of Russian-language cybercrime forum YouHack exposed its members’ login details – and millions of credentials they had posted about other victims, according to newly cataloged data. Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) added the breach on Wednesday, recording 7. 2 million unique email addresses.

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