NextGenUpdate data breach: 1.2M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2015-06-05
Early in 2014, the video game website NextGenUpdate reportedly suffered a data breach that disclosed almost 1.2 million accounts. Amongst the data breach was usernames, email addresses, IP addresses and salted and hashed passwords. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Apr 22, 2014; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jun 5, 2015.
What to do
- If you had a NextGenUpdate 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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