Black Hat World Breach
Jun 23, 2014
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Added on Feb 12, 2025
What happened in the Black Hat World Breach?
DataBreach.com Team · February 11th 2025, 7:00 pm EST
On 23 June 2014, Black Hat World-a forum dedicated to search engine optimization and digital marketing tactics-suffered a significant data breach affecting approximently 560K user accounts. Attackers exploited a vulnerability in the site's database and extracted a MySQL script containing a wide array of sensitive user data. The exposed information included email addresses, usernames, dates of birth, IP addresses, instant messenger identities, passwords, and records of website activity.
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