Smogon data breach: 386K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2018-04-11
In April 2018, the Pokémon website known as Smogon announced they'd suffered a data breach. The breach dated back to September 2017 and affected their XenForo based forum. The exposed data included usernames, email addresses, genders and both bcrypt and MD5 password hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, genders, geographic locations, passwords, usernames, website activity. The breach dates from Sep 10, 2017; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Apr 11, 2018.
What to do
- If you had a Smogon 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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