![]() ![]() What you should do right now is go to the website "Have I Been Pwned" ( ), and search your email tied to AQW. It seems that now, two months later, some hacker(s) are using the breach to hack some AQW accounts. In January, this massive leak of public info called "Collections #1" happened. youtuber Korey, one moderator account, and more we haven't heard of) have been reportedly hacked recently. Addressing the second question, you may have noticed that some accounts (e.g. What is this and how does it impact me/AQW? I go more in depth on "What is this post about" in the section 2). Hey non-techies and AQW players alike guys! To add some input to this: ![]() Full details on the incident and how to search the breached passwords are provided in the blog post The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach. The data contained almost 2.7 billion records including 773 million unique email addresses alongside passwords those addresses had used on other breached services. In January 2019, a large collection of credential stuffing lists (combinations of email addresses and passwords used to hijack accounts on other services) was discovered being distributed on a popular hacking forum. ![]() If you've been pwned, change your passwords immediately Especially since all the data in the breach was shared in a popular hacking forum.Ĭheck if you've been pwned by "Collection #1" I'm guessing someone's gotten a hold of the data and has been using them to get into AQW accounts. It's made up of many different individual data breaches from literally thousands of different sources.Īlthough the breaches aren't new, it is still a collection of many individual breaches. It is in fact the largest data breach ever recorded according to haveibeenpwned.Ĭollection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows. ![]() According to there has been a 773 million record "Collection #1" Data Breach that happened only 2 months ago. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |