Powerbot data breach: 503K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2017-07-01
In approximately September 2014, the RuneScape bot website Powerbot suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of over half a million unique user records. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes of passwords. The site was previously reported as compromised on the Vigilante.pw breached database directory. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Sep 1, 2014; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 1, 2017.
What to do
- If you had a Powerbot 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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