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ILikeCheats Data Breach

ilikecheats.net
Limited exposure
Verified breach Passwords exposed
Accounts exposed 188,847
Breach date 18 Oct 2014
Added to tracker 22 Apr 2018
Data classes 4

What happened

In October 2014, the game cheats website known as ILikeCheats suffered a data breach that exposed 189k accounts. The vBulletin based forum leaked usernames, IP and email addresses and weak MD5 hashes of passwords. The data was provided with support from dehashed.com.

Exposed data

Email addresses IP addresses Passwords Usernames

Recommended actions

  • Change your ILikeCheats 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 ILikeCheats โ€” attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
  • Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.
Am I affected? Check whether your email address appears in this breach.
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