Final Fantasy Shrine data breach: 620K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2015-10-31
In September 2015, the Final Fantasy discussion forum known as FFShrine was breached and the data dumped publicly. Approximately 620k records were released containing email addresses, IP addresses and salted hashes of passwords. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords, usernames, website activity. The breach dates from Sep 18, 2015; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Oct 31, 2015.
What to do
- If you had a Final Fantasy Shrine 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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