artrookie.co.uk

The organization associated with the domain artrookie.co.uk, also referenced by its web address, was headquartered in the United Kingdom. The specific products or services it provided are not detailed in the available incident record, though the storage of user credentials confirms the website operated a system requiring registration. The most significant documented event in its operational history is a data breach that occurred on December 7, 2015. An attacker identified as Rubber, also using the handle @smitt3nz, successfully infiltrated the site. This intrusion resulted in the exfiltration and public disclosure of a dataset containing 1,710 usernames and their corresponding hashed passwords. The breach represents a clear compromise of the organization's user data security.

The exposure of hashed passwords, while a better practice than storing plaintext, remains a serious vulnerability if weak hashing algorithms or a lack of salting was employed, as such hashes can be cracked with modern tools. The individuals whose credentials were dumped faced immediate risks of account takeover on the compromised platform and potential credential stuffing attacks elsewhere. No information is available regarding the organization's public response, notification to affected users, or security remediation following this incident. The provided summary does not record any subsequent security events involving this domain. This profile is necessarily limited by the sparse source material, which focuses almost entirely on this single 2015 compromise without elaborating on the organization's business model, scale, or ultimate fate.