Vermillion 2014 Data Breach

Vermillion 2014 Data Breach

Cybercrime / Threat Actor Infrastructure

Vermillion 2014 Data Breach

A roblox hacking forum.

Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Limited DisclosureThis data comes from an illicit online community. Because merely appearing in it could wrongly imply involvement, we do not confirm anyone’s presence publicly or allow third parties to look others up.
Breach Risk Index i
44/100
Lower riskHigher risk
Moderate: notable exposure with meaningful misuse potential.
Data Sensitivity i
Restricted
Being associated with this breach can itself be harmful. Disclosure is limited and presence is not confirmed to unverified parties.
8KRecords
2014Year

The Breach Risk Index (BRI) is a proprietary 0–100 score rating how dangerous a breach is right now, based on how recently the data has been circulating on the dark web and how valuable it is to attackers.

Classification Tags
Cloud MisconfigurationCybercrimeThreat Actor Infrastructure2014

Breach Summary

In August 2014, the Roblox hacking forum Vermillion suffered a data breach that exposed over 8k subscriber records. The breach of the MyBB forum exposed email and IP addresses, usernames, dates of birth and salted password hashes.

Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.

10 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine

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8K records analyzed

About Vermillion

Vermillion is a roblox hacking forum.

Why They Hold Your Data

Vermillion is a roblox hacking forum. Services like this typically hold dates of birth, email addresses, IP addresses, passwords, usernames through account registration and normal operations.

Recent Developments

The Vermillion dataset circulated publicly; treat as part of the standing exposure landscape.

Data Points Exposed

5 verified field types
Date of Birth High
Email Address
IP Address
Password High
Username

Breach Impact

The exposure of credentials alongside personal data heightened account-takeover and reuse risk for Vermillion users and drew scrutiny of its data protection.

Exploitation & Downstream Threats

• Credential stuffing against reused passwords across other platforms | • Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses

Principal Risk Advisory

What this means for a principal

A consumer-service breach: contact and account data supports phishing, account takeover and profile enrichment. For a high-profile principal the main risk is credible impersonation and enrichment of existing exposure.

What You Should Do

  1. Reset any reused passwords and enable MFA on email first, then financial accounts.
  2. Do not use unofficial 'am I affected' lookups; several are themselves harvesting operations.

How ObscureIQ Can Help

  1. Corpus confirmation: determine whether and where the principal (plus household and staff) appear in this dataset and which specific fields are exposed for them.
  2. Exposure mapping: cross-reference the exposed identifiers against broker-available data to size and prioritize the principal's wider footprint.
  3. ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).

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