Emuparadise Data Breach

What happened

In April 2018, the self-proclaimed "biggest retro gaming website on earth", Emuparadise, suffered a data breach. The compromised vBulletin forum exposed 1.1 million email addresses, IP address, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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