Light's Hope data breach: 30K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2018-07-04
In June 2018, the World of Warcraft service Light's Hope suffered a data breach which they subsequently self-submitted to HIBP. Over 30K unique users were impacted and their exposed data included email addresses, dates of birth, private messages and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, geographic locations, ip addresses, passwords, private messages, usernames. The breach dates from Jun 25, 2018; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 4, 2018.
What to do
- If you had a Light's Hope 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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