DaniWeb Breach

In late 2015, DaniWeb—a popular online community for programmers and tech enthusiasts—suffered a data breach that compromised approximately 1.13 million user records. The breach, first detected on December 1, 2015 and later verified by platforms such as Mozilla Monitor and Sencode Breaches, resulted in the exposure of email addresses, IP addresses, and salted MD5 hashes of passwords. However, DaniWeb later clarified that the breached password hashes and salts were incorrect, and they had since migrated to a new, more secure infrastructure.