GamingMonk data breach: 654K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2023-11-05
In December 2020, India's "largest esports community" GamingMonk (since acquired by and redirected to MPL Esports), suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 655k unique email addresses along with names, usernames, phone numbers, dates of birth and bcrypt password hashes. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers, usernames. The breach dates from Dec 2, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Nov 5, 2023.
What to do
- If you had a GamingMonk 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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