The psr06 Breach Put 3,059 Stolen Email and Password Pairs Online

psr06 (psr06.com) was a Canadian online forum that operated in the early 2010s. In February 2013, the forum's database was breached, exposing 3,059 user accounts. The stolen data includes email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, password salts, and MD5 password hashes. The breach is classified as unverified. While small in scale, the presence of both the password salt and the hash for each account is a significant technical detail: having the salt alongside the hash enables attackers to conduct targeted per-account cracking more precisely than working with unsalted hashes alone.

Why psr06 Breach Is Dangerous

MD5 with a known salt is still crackable. Salting improves security by preventing rainbow table attacks, but it does not prevent brute force cracking when the salt is also known, as it is in this dataset. Attackers who have both the salt and the MD5 hash can compute targeted guesses for each account individually. While this is more computationally intensive than attacking unsalted hashes, modern cracking hardware makes it practical for the entire 3,059-record database. Each cracked hash yields a plain-text password that can then be tested across other platforms.

What Was Exposed in the psr06 Leak

• Email Address
• Username
• IP Address
• Password Salt
• MD5 Password Hash

Why This psr06 Data Puts You at Risk

Small forum breaches like psr06 are relativly low-profile, meaning many affected users were never notified and have no idea their credentials are in circulation. Attackers specifically seek out small, obscure breaches because users of niche forums are less likely to have rotated those passwords. If you registered on psr06.com in 2013, the email and password combination you used may be the same one you rely on for active accounts today. The Canadian origin of this breach means affected users may also appear in other Canadian-focused breach datasets that attackers combine for regional targeting.

How Small Forum Breaches Stay Relevant for Years

The psr06 breach occured in 2013, but the data does not expire. Small forum databases are archived, traded, and merged into aggregate credential lists by data brokers operating in underground markets. A 3,059-record database is trivially small to distribute and is frequently bundled with dozens of other small forum dumps to create multi-thousand-record combo lists. These lists are then tested against popular platforms in automated credential stuffing campaigns that run continuously in the background, testing seperate sets of credentials against new targets each day.

Check If Your Data Was Exposed

HEROIC's free breach search checks your email against 400 billion+ compromised records, including the psr06 dataset. Search now to see if your account was part of this breach. If you registered on psr06.com in 2013, verify that no active accounts share the password you used there and update any that do.