Android Forums 2011 Data Breach
The 2011 Android Forums data breach is a credential incident affecting the Android community forum and catalogued with a date of October 30, 2011. It is not a breach of Google, the Android operating system, phone manufacturers, or user devices.
Exposed Data Types
6- Dates of birth
- Email addresses
- Personal homepage URLs
- Instant-messenger identities
- IP addresses
- Hashed passwords
About This Breach
The external source reports 745,355 accounts and local search contains 742,236 records, a difference of 3,119. The six classes are dates of birth, emails, personal homepage URLs, instant-messenger identities, IP addresses, and salted MD5 password hashes. AIM, MSN, or Yahoo identities should be represented only to the extent authenticated by the dataset schema.
Phones, payments, private messages, and device identifiers are not reported classes. A record does not establish identity, an Android or Google account or device, forum membership, IP or location, a messaging account, password ownership or currentness, field co-occurrence, account takeover, or misuse.
Salted MD5 is not plaintext but is weak by current standards. If the old password genuinely belonged to the person and was reused elsewhere, it should be replaced with a unique password.
Verification and editorial method
LeakData compares the incident name, date, affected-record count, and exposed data types with accessible sources. Unverified fields are not presented as facts, and records are updated when new evidence becomes available.
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