Planet Calypso data breach: 62K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-01-12
In approximately July 2019, the forums for the Planet Calypso game suffered a data breach. The breach of the vBulletin based forum exposed email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Jul 1, 2019; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jan 12, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a Planet Calypso 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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