Abandonia (2015) Data Breach

What happened

In November 2015, the gaming website dedicated to classic DOS games Abandonia suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 776k unique user records. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes of passwords.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Abandonia (2015) 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 Abandonia (2015) — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.