Cross Fire data breach: 12.9M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2016-12-28
In August 2016, the Russian gaming forum known as Cross Fire (or cfire.mail.ru) was hacked along with a number of other forums on the Russian mail provider, mail.ru. The vBulletin forum contained 12.8 million accounts including usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Aug 8, 2016; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Dec 28, 2016.
What to do
- If you had a Cross Fire 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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