EpicNPC data breach: 408K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-07-27
In January 2016, the hacked account reseller EpicNPC suffered a data breach that impacted 409k subscribers. The impacted data included usernames, IP and email addresses 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 2, 2016; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 27, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a EpicNPC 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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