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2015 Bitdefender — forums breach exposing usernames and salted hashes

2015 Unknown records affected Share on X

Data compromised

Usernames, emails, and password hashes for forum accounts

Technical writeup

Bitdefender confirmed compromise of its community forum platform and reset passwords after attackers published sample account data; disclosure described hashed passwords and public profile fields.

Root cause

Web forum compromise / SQL injection class attack (per vendor post summarized by press)

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