verified2014-03-29
BoxeeBoxee breach
forums.boxee.com · 158,093 records compromised
Records
158K
Breach date
2014-03-29
Domain
forums.boxee.com
Data classes
10
Description
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.
Compromised data classes· 10
Dates of birthEmail addressesGeographic locationsHistorical passwordsInstant messenger identitiesIP addressesPasswordsPrivate messagesUser website URLsUsernames
Related by meaning· 6
Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.