Impact & Downstream Threats
This breach carries moderate risk due to the nature of exposed data fields and the scale of affected records.
- Credential stuffing against reused passwords across other platforms
- Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses
Breach Intelligence
Executive Summary
In June 2019, the "Art of Human Hacking" site Social Engineered suffered a data breach. The breach of the MyBB forum was published on a rival hacking forum and included 89k unique email addresses spread across 55k forum users and other tables in the database. The exposed data also included usernames, IP addresses, private messages and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.
About Social Engineered
Social Engineered is an organization whose data was exposed in this breach. The dataset has been verified by ObscureIQ intelligence and indexed across breach notification platforms.
Data Points Exposed
Dark Web Verification
Status: Confirmed
- Dataset containing approximately 89K records identified in breach intelligence sources.
- The data is indexed and searchable across breach notification platforms.
Recommended Actions
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Frequently Asked Questions
In June 2019, Social Engineered experienced a data breach that exposed approximately 89K records containing personal information.
The exposed data includes fields such as email address, ip address, messages and chat:private message, password, username.
Approximately 89K records were affected based on current breach intelligence.
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- A high-profile executive
- A customer of Social Engineered
- Or concerned about credential reuse
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