crackingforum.com
Jan 1, 2015
A breach of CrackingForum (crackingforum.com), a hacking/cracking community forum running on vBulletin software. The dataset contains user account records including usernames, email addresses, IP addresses, and salted MD5 password hashes in hash:salt format. The passwords use long random salts consistent with vBulletin's password storage scheme. The user base is international, including users from Vietnam, Germany, Poland, France, Romania, Turkey, and other countries. The archive was distributed via BreachForums.
Data found in this dataset
Source files
Expand any file to inspect its column headers and the LLM's field-mapping reasoning, recorded during ingestion.
Breached_Info.txt1 rows
File structure
Notes: free-form text with embedded emails / phones
CrackingForum.com_vB_2015.txt4 columns659,289 rows
File structure
Format: CSV·Delimiter: tab·Has header: no·Quote: "
| Source column | Mapped field | Confidence | LLM assessment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | username | high | [0] values are clearly forum usernames/handles (e.g. 'Geocodes', 'saaid', 'alvin3130', 'Baczka1', 'RiKiN') |
| 1 | high | [1] values contain @ signs and are clearly email addresses (e.g. 'crackingforum1@gmail.com', 'saaidmohammed41@yahoo.com') | |
| 2 | skip | high | [2] IP addresses — internal/technical data, not a PII field type in the available list |
| 3 | password | high | [3] values are MD5 hash:salt pairs consistent with vBulletin password storage (e.g. '5c1df6b2b230c87a3a94036ce411ea71:+)mG*Y~,...') |
Notes: 4-column tab-delimited file with no header row. Columns are: username, email, IP address (skipped), password hash:salt (mapped as password). IP addresses are not in the available PII field types and are treated as skip. All 50 rows follow this structure consistently. Dataset matches vBulletin forum breach pattern for CrackingForum 2015.