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XKCD forums breached - Mr.Kurd - 09-03-2019
In The Name Of Allah
Al-Salam Alekum
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The forum for the techie-darling comic strip XKCD was still offline on Monday afternoon after Troy Hunt’s breach site, Have I Been Pwned, reported on Sunday that 562,000 of the forum’s accounts had been breached sometime in August.
A breach notice on the echochamber.me/xkcd forums echoed Hunt’s message: portions of the forums’ phpBB user table showed up in a cache of leaked data, it said. The forum exposed usernames, email addresses, passwords salted and hashed using the obsolete MD5 hashing function, and IP addresses.
Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/09/03/xkcd-forums-breached/amp/
Wa Salam Alekum