--- title: Hackers Steal 45 Million Passwords From Over 1,100 Websites description: Hackers have stolen information, including passwords, from almost 45 million accounts on 1,100 major car, sports, and tech websites. authors: - name: Denver Nicks url: https://money.com/author/denver-nicks/ at_money_since: 2015 articles: 60 covers: - Identity Theft - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Housing - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Personal Finance - Pets - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes social: - https://x.com/DenverNicks - https://plus.google.com/105122198911201917932 former_staff: true published: '2016-06-14T21:20:18.000Z' modified: '2024-04-17T02:21:21.000Z' section: Identity Theft tags: - cyber security - Hack - hackers - infosec - motorcycle.com - Password - Passwords - pubdesk - Security - VerticalScope word_count: 258 canonical: https://money.com/hackers-steal-45-million-passwords/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Close up of silhouetted male hand typing on laptop keyboard](https://img.money.com/2016/06/gettyimages-551984311.jpg) Hackers have made off with information, including passwords, from almost 45 million accounts on more than 1,100 major car, sports, and tech community websites, the website LeakedSource [revealed](https://www.leakedsource.com/blog/verticalscope) in a blog post Tuesday. The leak affects websites operated by VerticalScope, a Canadian company that runs a large number of online communities, and includes big-name sites like [techsupportforum.com](http://techsupportforum.com) and [motorcycle.com](http://motorcycle.com). According to Leakedsource, the hack was perpetrated in February 2016. LeakedSource has gained notoriety in recent years after hosting data purloined in a number of high-profile hacks, including [myspace.com](http://myspace.com) and [LinkedIn.com](http://linkedin.com). If your information has been compromised in the leak you can remove it from LeakedSource’s database [via this link.](https://www.leakedsource.com/main/removal) If you have been affected by this hack, change your passwords immediately and be sure you aren’t using the same passwords on other sites and you used on the leaked sites. (Here's [a list of other companies](https://money.com/data-breach-identity-theft-jp-morgan-kmart-staples/) whose data has been compromised, and a guide to the steps to take [if you think you've been hacked](https://money.com/russian-password-hackers-heres-what-to-do-now/).) In an [email](http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hackers-make-off-with-over-40-million-passwords-from-1000-sites) to Vice, VerticalScope VP Jerry Orban confirmed the possibility of a hack and wrote, “We believe that any potential breach is limited to usernames, userids, email addresses, and encrypted passwords of our users.” However, LeakedSource tells Vice it was able to crack 74% of the stolen passwords. According to the site, the most popular password in use across all 1,100 sites hacked was not “password,” which came in third, but “123456.” The second most-used password was “18atcskd2w," which turned up 91,000 times. 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