AnimeGame data breach: 1.4M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-03-09
In February 2020, the gaming website AnimeGame suffered a data breach. The incident affected 1.4M subscribers and exposed email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. The data was subsequently shared on a popular hacking forum and was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Feb 27, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Mar 9, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a AnimeGame 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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