GameVN data breach: 1.4M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2024-09-23
In May 2016, the Vietnamese gaming forum GameVN suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. Data breached from the XenForo-based forum included 1.4M unique email addresses, usernames, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from May 1, 2016; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Sep 23, 2024.
What to do
- If you had a GameVN 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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