1.5 million players details leaked at online video game community

Synopsis

One of the largest video gaming communities disclosed a data breach in December 2016 though it wasn’t known at that time what was stolen or how many users were affected.

Reportedly a ransom of $100,000 had been demanded which the company did not pay.

In Jan 2017, LeakedSource revealed that 1,503,707 records from the company had been added to its database and included user's private information such as registration date, city, state, last login, username, first and last name, bcrypt hash, email address, date of birth, zip code, phone number, website URL, Steam ID, Xbox ID and PSN ID.

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