9.3 Million Accounts Compromised In Epidemic Of Forum Hacks

[Coolasmoo]

Guys, Just a heads up as usual, may want to change your passwords if you belong to any of the below communities.

A rash of hacks in the past two months has left the usernames, emails and passwords from at least twelve gaming forums compromised, including those of Unreal creator Epic Games and Secret World developer Funcom. Other breaches include a GTA fansite and, as previously reported, the official forums of Dota 2. All the attacks involved an exploit in the forum’s software, which the hackers used to hoover up details of members. And while the passwords are encrypted, they can often be easily cracked. In total, over 9 million user accounts have had their details stolen.

The websites affected are:

Funcom’s forums on TheSecretWorld.com, AgeofConan.com, Anarchy-Online.com and LongestJourney.com – 1,037,622 accounts
Epic Games forum and the Unreal Engine forum – 808,000 users
Clash of Kings official forums – 1,597,717 users
Dota 2’s official forums – 1,923,972 users
DLH.net, a PC gaming and ‘cheats’ website with a forum of trading Steam keys – 3,137,199 users
Gamesforum.com – 109,135 users
GTAgaming.com – approx 197,000 users
PPCGeeks.com – 490,004 users

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/20...forum-hacks-funcom-epic-and-more/#more-393119