Abandonia (2022) Data Breach

What happened

In November 2022, the gaming website dedicated to classic DOS games Abandonia suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of 920k unique user records. This breach was in addition to another one 7 years earlier in 2015. The data contained email and IP addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes of passwords.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Abandonia (2022) 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 (2022) — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.