Paragon Cheats data breach: 188K accounts exposed
Severity: medium · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2022-05-14
In May 2021, the Grand Theft Auto Online cheats website Paragon Cheats suffered a data breach that lead to the shutdown of the service. The breach exposed 188k customer records including usernames, email and IP addresses. Exposed data: browser user agent details, email addresses, ip addresses, usernames. The breach dates from May 22, 2021; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on May 14, 2022.
What to do
- If you had a Paragon Cheats 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.
Sources
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