VimeWorld data breach: 3.1M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2024-10-30
In October 2018, the Russian Minecraft service VimeWorld suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The data included 3.1M 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 Oct 1, 2018; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Oct 30, 2024.
What to do
- If you had a VimeWorld 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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