Unreal Engine data breach: 530K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2016-11-07
In August 2016, the Unreal Engine Forum suffered a data breach, allegedly due to a SQL injection vulnerability in vBulletin. The attack resulted in the exposure of 530k accounts including usernames, email addresses and salted MD5 hashes of passwords. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Aug 11, 2016; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Nov 7, 2016.
What to do
- If you had a Unreal Engine 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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