StreamCraft data breach: 1.8M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2024-10-27
In July 2020, the Russian Minecraft service StreamCraft suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The data included 1.8M records of usernames, email and IP addresses and passwords stored as either MD5 or bcrypt hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Jul 6, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Oct 27, 2024.
What to do
- If you had a StreamCraft 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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