Zooville Data Breach

What happened?

In September 2019, the zoophilia and bestiality forum Zooville suffered a data breach . The usernames and email addresses of 71k members were accessed via an unpatched vulnerability in the vBulletin forum software then subsequently distributed online. A second data set was later provided to HIBP which contained a complete vBulletin database dump including IP addresses, dates of birth and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The site administrator advised that following the breach, all data had been deleted from the forum and a new one had been stood up on the XenForo platform.

When did it happen?

The breach date in the public record is September 27, 2019. The record was added to the catalogue on October 19, 2019 and last updated there on October 20, 2019.

What information was reported as exposed?

• Dates of birth
• Email addresses
• IP addresses
• Passwords
• 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 Zooville or used zooville.org around September 27, 2019. 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.