Aimware Data Breach

What happened

In mid-2019, the video game cheats website "Aimware" suffered a data breach that exposed hundreds of thousands of subscribers' personal information. Data included email and IP addresses, usernames, forum posts, private messages, website activity and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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