Yet again a web based game community has become the victim of hackers
who have breached its system and leaked 38,000 login credentials.
The community and website is Pixel Federation (http://www.pixelfederation.com/)
which was founded in 2007 and is based in Slovakia. The site is very
popular amongst gamers in Europe who play mobile and web based games
which is why this breach will have an effect on so many people as many
of the accounts will still be actively used.
A source close to me tipped me off to this breach after they
discovered it and also released they had been caught up in it. When they
first visited the site on monday 17.04 UTC they discovered the website
was offline displaying a maintenance message then at 19.01 UTC the
following warning message was displayed on the portal (http://portal.pixelfederation.com/?a=index/notify) which appears to of already been removed.
My contact has also stated that the message has still only been
displayed on the sites portal and no further announcement or emails for
password resets etc have been made by pixel federation.
The leaked data
was posted to pastebin with a link to another site where the actual
dump is by a hacker who’s twitter account is now suspended (@smitt3nz).
The credentials leaked contain user email addresses, site id and MD5 encrypted passwords totally 38,036 all together.
The sites system is made up of old software like outdated phpbb
forums and old versions of WordPress so its no wonder this has happened.
I have contacted the administration of this site but at time of publishing no response from them as yet.
If you are a member of this site i suggest you change your passwords
anywhere else that you use it and possible other places just for safe
measure.
The hacker has also recently attacked the UK council for graduate education and leaked data and left it defaced.
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