EpicBot data breach: 816K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-11-19
In September 2019, the RuneScape bot provider EpicBot suffered a data breach that impacted 817k subscribers. Data from the breach was subsequently shared on a popular hacking forum and included usernames, email and IP addresses and passwords stored as either salted MD5 or bcrypt hashes. EpicBot did not respond when contacted about the incident. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Sep 1, 2019; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Nov 19, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a EpicBot 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.
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