CD Projekt RED data breach: 1.9M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2017-01-31
In March 2016, Polish game developer CD Projekt RED suffered a data breach. The hack of their forum led to the exposure of almost 1.9 million accounts along with usernames, email addresses and salted SHA1 passwords. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Mar 1, 2016; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jan 31, 2017.
What to do
- If you had a CD Projekt RED 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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