GameTuts data breach: 2.1M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2016-09-23
Likely in early 2015, the video game website GameTuts suffered a data breach and over 2 million user accounts were exposed. The site later shut down in July 2016 but was identified as having been hosted on a vBulletin forum. The exposed data included usernames, email and IP addresses and salted MD5 hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Mar 1, 2015; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Sep 23, 2016.
What to do
- If you had a GameTuts 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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