If you’ve ever played retro 2-D MMORPG 8BitMMO, the time has come to change your password. We recommend 256-bit.
Archive Entertainment’s Robby Zinchak told players yesterday that the game’s database had been hacked.
“At around 5AM last night, I detected an attempted attack on the server database. Looking into this issue, I found a potential exploit that may have been used to gain unauthorized read-only access to the database, including potential access to customer information.”
The bug is fixed now, but the hacker had access to some user info.
“The database contains the following sensitive information: username, e-mail (if provided), hashed password (not stored in plaintext), IP address. For a very small number of users (<30) that have provided it, the database also contains their real name (if provided), mailing address (if provided), as well as a “credit card description” if you opted for the site to remember your credit card. This does NOT contain your full credit card number, but does contain the type of card, the last four digits, and the expiry date.”
“Out of an abundance of caution,” Zinchak has rolled back the database and reset all account passwords. He has also apologized for the incident.
