Minecraft Hack Exposes 7 Million User Accounts

Fans of the popular game Minecraft: Pocket Edition should offset worrying as a security researcher has discovered that hackers targeted the game'southward community website in January. The fan site Lifeboat for Minecraft: Pocket Edition was hacked earlier this twelvemonth and the data of over vii million accounts remains at risk.

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Minecraft fan site Lifeboat hack exposes 7 million accounts

Minecraft is a hugely pop block-edifice game from Microsoft. Lifeboat, however, is an independent site that runs servers for custom, multiplayer environments of Minecraft Pocket Edition (the mobile version of the game), allowing players to participate in different game modes. Fans of the game download the Minecraft Pocket Edition app, connect to a Lifeboat server using a username, an electronic mail accost and a password to bring together the community.

This stolen information, which includes weakly hashed passwords, remains at large, security researcher Troy Hunt said in an email toMotherboard. Chase will upload the data to his site "Have I Been Pwned?", which will assist the victims cheque if their accounts have been compromised.

"The data was provided to me by someone actively involved in trading who's sent me other information in the past," Hunt.

Lifeboat hasn't informed its users about this breach, which happened in January. "When this happened [in] early on January we figured the best thing for our players was to quietly force a password reset without letting the hackers know they had express fourth dimension to act," a Lifeboat representative said in an email. Yet, password reset doesn't fix the issue since if any players did suspect strange action in their accounts, they wouldn't probably track it back to Lifeboat without the site informing its users.

"No lifeboat has not notified me of anything. Looks similar they want to keep information technology [quiet], which I guess isn't that fair," Tyler, one victim of the breach said. Talking to Motherboard, another victim Ali said "information technology's bad that they were breached in the beginning place, but not telling united states of america near it is even worse."

If you use Lifeboat, head over to HaveIBeenPwned.com in the next few days to check if your e-mail address is function of the breach. In any instance, it is appropriate for all the Lifeboat users to change their passwords, especially if you are in the lazy habit of using the same one for multiple sites.