More Than 8 Million Gamigo Passwords Leaked After The Hack
Several months after Gamigo warned its users of a server breach infected 8,243,809 user account credentials including e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords. In February 2012 Gamigo was hacked by a hacker named "8in4ry_Munch3r." Immediately after the breach company's website was taken down for an extended period of maintenance. After five months now the hacker published millions of password hashes belonging to users of the online games platform Gamigo. A 478MB file contains 8.2 million email addresses, usernames and password hashes. Among them around 3 million of these belong to users from the US, 2.4 million are German addresses and 1.3 million are supposed to originate in France. The list also includes corporate email addresses from companies such as IBM, Siemens, Deutsche Bank and the German insurance company Allianz. The file appeared in the same forum which had previously circulated millions of password hashes from Linkedin, eHarmony and other web sites. One user of the forum has claimed to have cracked 94% of the MD-5 hashes in a trivial amount of time. The fact that it was possible to crack the hashes this quickly would suggest that they were not salted. Earlier in 2011 we have seen several other gaming sites became victim of cyber attacks, among them there are Square Enix, Eidos, MapleStory & so on. This breach is bigger than anything we've seen so far this year. In the last few months there have been a slew of attacks against the following sites: Yahoo, LinkedIn, eHarmony, Android Forums, Formspring, and Nvidia. We advice to all the users who are registered with Gamigo and have used the same password at other web sites should immediately change their login credentials. Enjoy reading Voice of Greyhat, stay safe and happy on the Internet.
Brief about Gamigo:- Gamigo is a German online games publisher that focuses on Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) and has so far released 14 client games as well as five browser games.
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