Armor Games data breach: 10.6M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-07-20
In January 2019, the game portal website Armor Games suffered a data breach. A total of 10.6 million email addresses were impacted by the breach which also exposed usernames, IP addresses, birthdays of administrator accounts and passwords stored as salted SHA-1 hashes. Exposed data: bios, dates of birth, email addresses, genders, geographic locations, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Jan 1, 2019; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 20, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a Armor Games 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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