This is another reminder that you should not use the same password on more than one site. And if someone is seeing strange activity in their accounts, they would probably not track it back to Lifeboat without knowing about the original hack. “We have not received any reports of anyone being damaged by this,” a Lifeboat spokesperson said in a statement to Vice.īut it’s not likely that anyone would know that their email and password are available online without Lifeboat telling them in the first place. That could lead to even deeper issues like identity theft. If someone gets your login information for Lifeboat, they could easily build a script to use those credentials on more sensitive sites like your email, your bank account, or your Facebook. New breach: In Jan, the Minecraft community "Lifeboat" had 7M accounts exposed. We’re thrilled to open our call for speakers to our flagship event, GamesBeat Summit 2024 hosted in Los Angeles, where we will explore the theme of “Resilience and Adaption”. Before world governments came together to shut it down in 2013, the Silk Road website operated on the Dark Web and generated more than $30 million in revenue. Stolen data often ends up on the Dark Web - a portion of the Internet that is hidden and anonymous - where hackers and criminals sell illicit goods and information. This does not affect the desktop version of Minecraft.
Minecraft is the megapopular block-building game from Microsoft, but Lifeboat is an independent site that offers players a way to gather together online using multiplayer servers. Hackers targeted the community website Lifeboat for Minecraft: Pocket Edition in January and extracted sensitive information for more than 7 million accounts, according to online security expert Troy Hunt (via Vice). About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright. Your security is always at risk online, and now it’s fans of the game Minecraft: Pocket Edition that should start worrying. Minecraft is the megapopular block-building game from Microsoft, but Lifeboat is an independent site that offers players a way to gather together online using multiplayer servers.
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