D3Scene data breach: 568K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-06-15
In January 2016, the gaming website D3Scene, suffered a data breach. The compromised vBulletin forum exposed 569k million email addresses, IP address, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Jan 1, 2016; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jun 15, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a D3Scene 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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