Aimware data breach: 305K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2022-05-02
In mid-2019, the video game cheats website "Aimware" suffered a data breach that exposed hundreds of thousands of subscribers' personal information. Data included email and IP addresses, usernames, forum posts, private messages, website activity and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, private messages, usernames, website activity. The breach dates from Apr 28, 2019; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on May 2, 2022.
What to do
- If you had a Aimware 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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