Minecraft hacked! More than 1800 Minecraft account Credentials Leaked
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http://thehackernews.com/2015/01/minecraft-game-hacked.html
A sad reality for gamers all around the world who enjoy playing the very
popular game Minecraft on their PCs. If you are one of them, you'll want
to pay attention here.
A plain text file containing over 1,800 Minecraft account usernames and
passwords has just been leaked online, German media reports. The details
available in the leak has been posted to Pastebin, which would allow
anyone to log into a legitimate user's account in order to play online
and download the full version of the game to their own computers.
However, the more serious implication of the leaked credentials would be
for those affected users who had used the same username and password
combination for other online services, like shopping site, banking site,
email service or for any social networking site.
Minecraft is an incredibly popular online game bought by Microsoft just
few months back for $2.5 billion. The game has more than 100 million
registered accounts for its PC version alone, and 1800 leaked accounts
is just a fraction of the overall Minecraft population. This means its
an extremely minor breach.
However, the problem could be serious for both Minecraft’s developer
Mojang and its parent company Microsoft if the leaked player data turns
out to be just the beginning of the data breach.
Microsoft’s Xbox Live gaming service has regularly been a target for
hackers. On Christmas day, Microsoft’s Xbox Live service knocked offline
by hackers group, Lizard squad, who launched
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against the gaming network.
Sony’s Playstation was also targeted by the group at the same time.
And now another gaming brand of Microsoft is under attack.
(pic: Leaked Account and password pair)
So far, there's no clue as to where the credentials obtained, or if the
leak itself is a herald to a much larger attack targeted at Minecraft.
(Quote)
"There’s no guarantee that whoever gained access to them hasn't got a
whole lot more in their back pocket which they haven’t chosen to release
to the rest of the world," wrote Graham Cluley.
"There is no mention of the security breach on Minecraft’s homepage, but
my recommendation would be that if users have any concern that their
accounts might be exposed to hackers that they should change their passwords
immediately. It goes without saying that they should be particularly concerned
if they are using the same password anywhere else on the web."
(Quote)
At the moment, both Microsoft and Minecraft have not publicly acknowledged
the leak. Just to keep yourself safe, we strongly recommend you to change
your passwords to your Minecraft’s account and others if you use the same
as soon as possible.
簡單來說就是有人發現在Pastebin上面有一串流出的帳號密碼組共有1826筆
文中也不確定是否是因為Mojang加入M$的原因,而導致MC遭受M$的被攻擊日常
因為不知道是否是因為被攻擊才有這份account:pw dump表,也不知道有沒有
更機敏的資訊流出.
總之不管你的帳號是否在上面, 記得去改一下密碼.
帳密連結我就不貼出了.