Final Fantasy Shrine Data Breach

What happened

In September 2015, the Final Fantasy discussion forum known as FFShrine was breached and the data dumped publicly. Approximately 620k records were released containing email addresses, IP addresses and salted hashes of passwords.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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