DragonNest data breach: 511K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2025-02-03
In August 2013, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORGP) DragonNest suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed over 500k unique email addresses along with usernames, IP addresses and plain text passwords. The service later suffered a massive data loss. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Aug 23, 2013; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Feb 3, 2025.
What to do
- If you had a DragonNest 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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