9Lives data breach: 109K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2025-02-02
In October 2014, the (now defunct) Belgian gaming news forum 9Lives suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed 109k unique email addresses along with usernames and salted MD5 password hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Oct 1, 2014; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Feb 2, 2025.
What to do
- If you had a 9Lives account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
Sources
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