Lot of hacking going on lately?

[Mophead]

they also did a password reset on accounts affected by the breach.

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[♥ Decepticon ♥]

they also did a password reset on accounts affected by the breach.

Did they? I didn't know lol

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[Raposa]

Basically, yeah. There was a leak back in 2012/2013 and at the time this info was being sold, but it's been made public on the past year and people can basically just look it up whenever (though I've only seen one website with the leak which requires you to pay like two dollars to access the whole thing).

I believe that the leak was a .txt file with all registered usernames alongside with their passwords, pins, date of birth and email (and even IP addresses I think? might be wrong about the IP cus I'm not sure anymore)

It was $4, and IP addresses were included. Pins were not. Thankfully! ;-;

[zxzero]

Neopets

In May 2016, a set of breached data originating from the virtual pet website "Neopets" was found being traded online. Allegedly hacked "several years earlier", the data contains sensitive personal information including birthdates, genders and names as well as almost 27 million unique email addresses. Passwords were stored in plain text and IP addresses were also present in the breach.

Compromised data: Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, Geographic locations, IP addresses, Names, Passwords, Usernames

[Daffodil]

It was $4, and IP addresses were included. Pins were not. Thankfully! ;-;

I can see the IPs sort of being a great thing for people trying to get their accounts back though. Like if they wanted to check their own info. They can see the email they had attached, their name, IP etc.

[Hurricane]

I can see the IPs sort of being a great thing for people trying to get their accounts back though. Like if they wanted to check their own info. They can see the email they had attached, their name, IP etc.

Haha, I just got a hold of the database and I used this exact info to just submit a ticket on my really old account. Recovered the email and IP address so I should be safe!

[Raposa]

I can see the IPs sort of being a great thing for people trying to get their accounts back though. Like if they wanted to check their own info. They can see the email they had attached, their name, IP etc.

I used it to put an IP on a ticket as extra information. Hopefully it works!