SoarGames data breach: 4.8M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2023-12-03
In December 2019, the now defunct gaming website SoarGames suffered a data breach that exposed 4.8M unique email addresses. The impacted data included usernames, email and IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes. A significant number of the email addresses appeared to have been generated as opposed to organically provided by the user. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Dec 16, 2019; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Dec 3, 2023.
What to do
- If you had a SoarGames 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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