vBulletin Data Breach

What happened?

In November 2015, the forum software maker vBulletin suffered a serious data breach . The attack lead to the release of both forum user and customer accounts totalling almost 519k records. The breach included email addresses, birth dates, security questions and answers for customers and salted hashes of passwords for both sources.

When did it happen?

The breach date in the public record is November 3, 2015. The record was added to the catalogue on January 24, 2016 and last updated there on January 24, 2016.

What information was reported as exposed?

• Dates of birth
• Email addresses
• Homepage URLs
• Instant messenger identities
• IP addresses
• Passwords
• Security questions and answers
• Spoken languages
• Website activity

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 vBulletin or used vbulletin.com around November 3, 2015. 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.