Crack Community data breach: 19K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2015-02-03
In late 2013, the Crack Community forum specialising in cracks for games was compromised and over 19k accounts published online. Built on the MyBB forum platform, the compromised data included email addresses, IP addresses and salted MD5 passwords. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames, website activity. The breach dates from Sep 9, 2013; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Feb 3, 2015.
What to do
- If you had a Crack Community 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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