Games Box data breach: 1.4M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2024-09-15
In September 2020, now defunct website Games Box suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The impacted data included 1.4M email addresses alongside usernames, genders, ages and passwords stored as either a hash or plain text. Exposed data: ages, email addresses, genders, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Sep 21, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Sep 15, 2024.
What to do
- If you had a Games Box 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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