Stronghold Kingdoms data breach: 5.2M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-07-21
In July 2018, the massive multiplayer online game Stronghold Kingdoms suffered a data breach. Almost 5.2 million accounts were impacted by the incident which exposed emails addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted SHA-1 hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Jul 4, 2018; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 21, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a Stronghold Kingdoms 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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