Boxee Data Breach

What happened?

In March 2014, the home theatre PC software maker Boxee had their forums compromised in an attack. The attackers obtained the entire vBulletin MySQL database and promptly posted it for download on the Boxee forum itself. The data included 160k users, password histories, private messages and a variety of other data exposed across nearly 200 publicly exposed tables.

When did it happen?

The breach date in the public record is March 29, 2014. The record was added to the catalogue on March 30, 2014 and last updated there on March 30, 2014.

What information was reported as exposed?

• Dates of birth
• Email addresses
• Geographic locations
• Historical passwords
• Instant messenger identities
• IP addresses
• Passwords
• Private messages
• User website URLs
• Usernames

These are incident-level categories. The record does not prove that every category was exposed for every affected person.

Who may be affected?

This record may be relevant to people who had an account or other relationship with Boxee or used forums.boxee.com around March 29, 2014. A catalogue entry does not establish that every customer was affected or that every listed data category applied to each person. Compare the record with an official notice addressed to you.

What should you do?

Choose actions that match the information involved. If you find signs that someone is using your identity, the Federal Trade Commission provides a personal recovery plan at IdentityTheft.gov.