Lifeboat data breach: 7.1M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2016-04-25
In January 2016, the Minecraft community known as Lifeboat was hacked and more than 7 million accounts leaked. Lifeboat knew of the incident for three months before the breach was made public but elected not to advise customers. The leaked data included usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as straight MD5 hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Jan 1, 2016; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Apr 25, 2016.
What to do
- If you had a Lifeboat 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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