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GameSalad Data Breach

gamesalad.com
Significant exposure
Verified breach Passwords exposed
Accounts exposed 1,506,242
Breach date 24 Feb 2019
Added to tracker 21 Jul 2019
Data classes 4

What happened

In February 2019, the education and game creation website Game Salad suffered a data breach. The incident impacted 1.5M accounts and exposed email addresses, usernames, IP addresses and passwords stored as SHA-256 hashes.

Exposed data

Email addresses IP addresses Passwords Usernames

Recommended actions

  • Change your GameSalad 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 GameSalad โ€” attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
  • Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.
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