Bitcoin Security Forum Gmail Dump data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the January 2014 breach of Bitcoin Security Forum Gmail Dump. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Bitcoin Security Forum Gmail Dump data breach exposed 4,789,599 accounts from forum.btcsec.com in January 2014. The data taken includes passwords and email addresses.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 10 Sep 2014, 8 months later. It is the 207th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Bitcoin Security Forum Gmail Dump’s breach included 2 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:
| Data | What it’s used for |
|---|---|
| Passwords | Criminals try leaked passwords on email, banking and shopping sites, because people reuse them. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
What to do
- Check whether you’re in it.Search your email address on Have I Been Pwned. It tells you which breaches it appears in, Bitcoin Security Forum Gmail Dump among them, without showing the data.
- Change your Bitcoin Security Forum Gmail Dump password.If the account still exists, sign in at Bitcoin Security Forum Gmail Dump (forum.btcsec.com) and change it.
- Change it anywhere you used the same one.Start with your email, then banking and shopping. Leaked passwords are tried on other sites automatically, within days.
- Use a password manager and two-step sign-in.A different password for every site means one breach can’t open the rest. Two-step sign-in stops a leaked password working on its own.
- Distrust messages that mention Bitcoin Security Forum Gmail Dump.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
Timeline
- : the breach, as best it can be dated.
- : Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, 8 months later.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- Bitly, May 2014, 9.3 million accounts
- ReverbNation, January 2014, 7 million accounts
- Kickstarter, February 2014, 5.2 million accounts
- Bin Weevils, September 2014, 1.3 million accounts
- Forbes, February 2014, 1.1 million accounts
- Domino's, June 2014, 648,231 accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “Bitcoin Security Forum Gmail Dump”, Have I Been Pwned, added 10 Sep 2014. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- forum.btcsec.com, Bitcoin Security Forum Gmail Dump’s website