The popular 3D game Minecraft has been hacked and information for over 7 million users has been compromised.
Members of the independent Minecraft “Lifeboat” community have had their security and privacy put at risk after hackers breached servers and stole usernames, email addresses and MD5-hashed passwords. Seven million Minecraft Pocket Edition players put at risk after Lifeboat hack, reports Hot for Security.
Only users of the smartphone edition of Minecraft were affected and only those who play the independent game “Lifeboat” community were involved in the compromise.
To make matters worse, as Lifeboat tells Motherboard, the security breach happened in January – and the company did not inform its users that an incident had occurred and that gamers would be wise to ensure they were not using the same passwords anywhere else on the web:
“When this happened [in] early January we figured the best thing for our players was to quietly force a password reset without letting the hackers know they had limited time to act. We did this over a period of some weeks. We retain no personal information (name, address, age) about our players, so none was leaked.”
With this information,it means that over the last four months passwords belonging to the “Lifeboat” community have been in the hands of hackers. And if you use the same passwords for other accounts like Amazon,Gmail,Ebay or any other websites with banking information,the hackers could get access to those accounts as well.
If you are curious to know if your email accounts have been hacked,check out this website called HaveIBeenPwned run by security researcher Troy Hunt. This is breach notification service, and they were contacted by someone who had access to the data, and users are now being informed of the risk.
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