SwordFantasy data breach: 2.7M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2024-03-26
In January 2019, the now defunct MMO and RPG game SwordFantasy suffered a data breach that exposed 2.7M unique email addresses. Other impacted data included username, IP address and salted MD5 password hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Jan 20, 2017; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Mar 26, 2024.
What to do
- If you had a SwordFantasy 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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