Abandonia (2022) data breach: 919K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2022-12-07
In November 2022, the gaming website dedicated to classic DOS games Abandonia suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 920k unique user records. This breach was in addition to another one 7 years earlier in 2015. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes of passwords. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Nov 15, 2022; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Dec 7, 2022.
What to do
- If you had a Abandonia (2022) 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.
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