Go Games data breach: 3.4M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-01-11
In approximately October 2015, the manga website Go Games suffered a data breach. The exposed data included 3.4M customer records including email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. Go Games did not respond when contacted about the incident. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Oct 24, 2015; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jan 11, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a Go Games 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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