Armor Games Data Breach

What happened

In January 2019, the game portal website Armor Games suffered a data breach. A total of 10.6 million email addresses were impacted by the breach which also exposed usernames, IP addresses, birthdays of administrator accounts and passwords stored as salted SHA-1 hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Armor Games 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 Armor Games — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Exposed identity data raises identity-theft risk — consider credit monitoring or a credit freeze.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.