Tuesday, January 10, 2017

MTG’s gaming company ESEA hacked – 1.5 million user information on the wave – IDG.see

According to the database Leakedsource, which records databasintrång, the leaked data does not contain users ‘ passwords, then, these encrypted with Bcrypt. Rather than containing the leak data from the 90 separate data fields, which users can voluntarily choose to enter in their profiles on the network.

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As the name, e-mail, address, telephone number, and the identification information connected with the ESEA from the Steam, Xbox and PSN.

Then the users themselves may decide whether they should share the data, it is far from all of the sufferers who need to have trouble, and most of the data is not especially sensitive – but could be used by hackers to create advanced bluffmejl.

Players have since the hack was discovered passed out on Reddit and told them that their information is with in the leak, and Twitch profile Jimmy Whisenhunt has taken to Twitter to do the same thing.

If you can believe Leakedsource to the hack against ESEA started as a utpressningsförsök in which the offender requested up to 50,000 dollars to keep quiet about the hack, and then help the ESEA to clog the leak. But ESEA should not have liked to play with, but told themselves that they were exposed to the hack, and restored user password, autentiseringsbevis and security issues.

the Data has since media coverage of the ESEA themselves who say that lösensumman low on the whole 100 000 dollars.

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ESEA is from the beginning an american gaming company, but was bought in december 2015, up by the Swedish media giant MTG.

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