GameSalad data breach: 1.5M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-07-21
In February 2019, the education and game creation website Game Salad suffered a data breach. The incident impacted 1.5M accounts and exposed email addresses, usernames, IP addresses and passwords stored as SHA-256 hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Feb 24, 2019; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 21, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a GameSalad 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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