BlankMediaGames Data Breach

What happened

In December 2018, the Town of Salem website produced by BlankMediaGames suffered a data breach. Reported to HIBP by DeHashed, the data contained 7.6M unique user email addresses alongside usernames, IP addresses, purchase histories and passwords stored as phpass hashes. DeHashed made multiple attempts to contact BlankMediaGames over various channels and many days but had yet to receive a response at the time of publishing.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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