ILikeCheats data breach: 188K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2018-04-22
In October 2014, the game cheats website known as ILikeCheats suffered a data breach that exposed 189k accounts. The vBulletin based forum leaked usernames, IP and email addresses and weak MD5 hashes of passwords. The data was provided with support from dehashed.com. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Oct 18, 2014; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Apr 22, 2018.
What to do
- If you had a ILikeCheats 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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