Games Box Data Breach

What happened

In September 2020, now defunct website Games Box suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The impacted data included 1.4M email addresses alongside usernames, genders, ages and passwords stored as either a hash or plain text.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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