If you have an account on XKCD forum change its password right now.
The popular webcomic XKCD has been hacked. Apparently, unknown hackers were able to breach the XKCD forum and manage to steal personal data of over 562,000 users.
The breach took place last month while the stolen data was identified by Adam Davies, a security researcher. However, originally, the data breach was announced by Troy Hunt of HaveIbeenPwned which indicates that XKCD itself was unaware of the incident up till now.
According to Hunt, the stolen data which has been leaked on the internet includes IP addresses, usernames, email address, and their password encrypted in MD5 format which is an easy one to decrypt.
See: Capital One data breach: 106m customers affected; suspected hacker arrested
New breach: XKCD had 562k accounts breached last month. The phpBB forum exposed email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored in MD5 phpBB3 format. 58% of addresses were already in @haveibeenpwned https://t.co/LGaAnj1hUA
— Have I Been Pwned (@haveibeenpwned) September 1, 2019
Hunt also shared a screenshot showing first hash from the breach:
XKCD on the other hand, has acknowledged the breach and since the news ..
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