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JoyGames Data Breach

joygames.me
Significant exposure
Verified breach Passwords exposed
Accounts exposed 4,461,787
Breach date 14 Dec 2019
Added to tracker 07 Dec 2023
Data classes 4

What happened

In December 2019, the forum for the JoyGames website suffered a data breach that exposed 4.5M unique email addresses. The impacted data also included usernames, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.

Exposed data

Email addresses IP addresses Passwords Usernames

Recommended actions

  • Change your JoyGames 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 JoyGames 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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