DragonNest Data Breach

What happened

In August 2013, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORGP) DragonNest suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed over 500k unique email addresses along with usernames, IP addresses and plain text passwords. The service later suffered a massive data loss.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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