verified2019-07-01
XKCDXKCD breach
xkcd.com · 561,991 records compromised
Records
562K
Breach date
2019-07-01
Domain
xkcd.com
Data classes
4
Description
In July 2019, the forum for webcomic XKCD suffered a data breach that impacted 562k subscribers. The breached phpBB forum leaked usernames, email and IP addresses and passwords stored in MD5 phpBB3 format. The data was provided to HIBP by white hat security researcher and data analyst Adam Davies.
Compromised data classes· 4
Email addressesIP addressesPasswordsUsernames
Related by meaning· 6
Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.