Impact & Downstream Threats
This breach carries high 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 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.
About The Kodi Foundation
Nonprofit organization behind Kodi media software.
Data Points Exposed
Dark Web Verification
Status: Confirmed
- Dataset containing approximately 401K records identified in breach intelligence sources.
- The data is indexed and searchable across breach notification platforms.
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Frequently Asked Questions
In February 2023, The Kodi Foundation experienced a data breach that exposed approximately 401K records containing personal information.
The exposed data includes fields such as date of birth, email address, ip address, messages and chat:private message, password.
Approximately 401K records were affected based on current breach intelligence.
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- A high-profile executive
- A customer of The Kodi Foundation
- Or concerned about credential reuse
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