Funny Games data breach: 764K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2018-07-24
In April 2018, the online entertainment site Funny Games suffered a data breach that disclosed 764k records including usernames, email and IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes. The incident was disclosed to Funny Games in July who acknowledged the breach and identified it had been caused by legacy code no longer in use. The record count in the breach constitute approximately half of the user base. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Apr 28, 2018; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 24, 2018.
What to do
- If you had a Funny Games 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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