9Lives Data Breach

What happened

In October 2014, the (now defunct) Belgian gaming news forum 9Lives suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed 109k unique email addresses along with usernames and salted MD5 password hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your 9Lives password immediately, and update it anywhere you reused the same password.
• Enable two-factor authentication on the affected account and on your critical services (email, banking).
• Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing 9Lives — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.