GameTuts Data Breach

What happened

Likely in early 2015, the video game website GameTuts suffered a data breach and over 2 million user accounts were exposed. The site later shut down in July 2016 but was identified as having been hosted on a vBulletin forum. The exposed data included usernames, email and IP addresses and salted MD5 hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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