RuneScape Boards data breach
222,762 accounts exposed.
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What was exposed
Email addressesIP addressesPasswordsUsernames
What to do
- Change your RuneScape Boards password, and the password on any other site where you used the same one.
- Expect more phishing emails that mention this service. Do not click links in them; go to the site directly.
- Turn on two-step verification wherever it is offered, and use a password manager.
About this breach
In around 2011, the now defunct RuneScape Boards forum (also known as RSBoards) suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The vBulletin-based service exposed 223k unique email addresses along with usernames, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.