Hackers have published in open access more than 8 million user accounts, site Gamigo. This archive includes usernames, passwords and email addresses.
Erez four months after the gaming service announced Gamigo hacker hacking and theft of user data on the web have been published more than 8 million logins, passwords and email addresses of users of this site.
Reported service PwnedList, tracking leaks of personal data. The database in the amount of $ polgigabayta with stolen user data has been published online by hackers InsidePro earlier in July 2012, where it remained available for download to all comers last week.
It should be noted that the passwords of the accounts on Gamigo stolen by hackers in the archive was encrypted, then as logins and email addresses can be accessed by anyone.
"This is the biggest leak I've ever encountered. When did he break-in, users' personal data were not included in the free access, so it did not cause great concern. Now, were compromised by more than 8 million e-mail address and password that will be an interesting discovery for many hackers, "- said Steve Thomas (SteveThomas), creator of the service PwnedList. Gamigo users have the ability to check whether they got an account and mailing address in stolen by hackers database online PwnedList.
According to experts, despite the fact that the passwords from the database Gamigo were published in an encrypted form, they should still be compromised. Many members of this forum InsidePro, which was published this information, reported that they were able to decipher most of the passwords.
Gamigo is a free gaming service, which is owned by German publishing company AxelSpringerAG. In March this year when it became known about the leak, the site has forced all of its users to change passwords on their accounts. Because of this, one could argue that using a stolen database hackers can no longer gain access to the accounts of users on the site Gamigo.
However, taking into account the fact that often users use the same password for many sites and services, with the help of this information, attackers may be able to access some of the other accounts of those whose data was stolen.
According PwnedList, including addresses in the archive is stolen more than three million email accounts registered in the U.S. services Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo!, approximately 2.4 million mailboxes on the German sites, and about 1.3 million French accounts.
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