GameVN Data Breach

What happened

In May 2016, the Vietnamese gaming forum GameVN suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. Data breached from the XenForo-based forum included 1.4M unique email addresses, usernames, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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