SportsFreaksOnline Alleged Data Exposure
The 2019 SportsFreaksOnline data breach occurred in November 2019 when the forum database of SportsFreaksOnline (sportsfreaksonline.com), a Canadian sports fan community, was compromised via the CVE-2019-16759 vBulletin vulnerability and published online.
Exposed Data Types
4- Email addresses
- Usernames
- Passwords
- IP addresses
About This Record
What information was compromised in the SportsFreaksOnline incident?
The leaked database dump contains over 110,000 member accounts. Verified exposed data classes include:
- Identity & Contact Details: Forum usernames and registered email addresses.
- Authentication Credentials: Salted vBulletin MD5 password hashes.
- Network Metadata: Registration and last active IP addresses.
How many accounts were affected?
RFC 5322 ASCII canonical verification confirmed 110,520 unique valid email addresses.
Security advisory & personal identity protection
The exposure of usernames, salted MD5 hashes, and emails creates risks of credential stuffing across other services. Impacted users should:
- Change passwords on external services where identical credentials were reused.
- Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) wherever available.
Verification and editorial method
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