Gamigo data breach: 8.2M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2016-01-18
In March 2012, the German online game publisher Gamigo was hacked and more than 8 million accounts publicly leaked. The breach included email addresses and passwords stored as weak MD5 hashes with no salt. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords. The breach dates from Mar 1, 2012; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jan 18, 2016.
What to do
- If you had a Gamigo 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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