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The personal details of 27,000 gamers have been leaked to a popular hacking forum.
Members of the Mr Green Gaming forum received some bad news over the weekend – an inactive administrator account had been used to access and then leak the details of all 27,000 members.
One of the forum moderators made the announcement on the community’s website on 3 March, hours after the user details had been posted to a popular clear web hacking forum.
“Unfortunately, on the 1st of March 2024, we awoke to find our forums compromised,” forum manager Nick_026 said in a forum post. “Essentially, someone discovered the login information for an inactive administrator account. While they had access to this account, they were able to vandalise the website and, more importantly, obtain confidential information.”
The website is now up and running, but the data – user names, email addresses, dates of birth, IP addresses, and other optional details such as geographic location – is well and truly out there.
The leaker even added HaveIBeenPwned’s write-up of the leak to their post.
“In March 2024, the online games community Mr. Green Gaming suffered a data breach that exposed 27k user records,” the leak post read, copied from Troy Hunt’s leak announcement. “Acknowledged on their Discord server, the incident exposed email and IP addresses, usernames, geographic locations and dates of birth.”
Thankfully, the leak does not include login details.
“Positively, there is no reason to think that the compromised account could have managed to leak any login credentials or password information,” Nick_026 said. “We store login information according to best practices, which means that all passwords are salted and hashed in case they managed to accomplish this.”
“Despite this, it is our recommendation that you change your password anywhere you may have used it.”
David Hollingworth has been writing about technology for over 20 years, and has worked for a range of print and online titles in his career. He is enjoying getting to grips with cyber security, especially when it lets him talk about Lego.
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