Funny Games Data Breach

What happened

In April 2018, the online entertainment site Funny Games suffered a data breach that disclosed 764k records including usernames, email and IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes. The incident was disclosed to Funny Games in July who acknowledged the breach and identified it had been caused by legacy code no longer in use. The record count in the breach constitute approximately half of the user base.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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