Lifeboat Data Breach

What happened

In January 2016, the Minecraft community known as Lifeboat was hacked and more than 7 million accounts leaked. Lifeboat knew of the incident for three months before the breach was made public but elected not to advise customers. The leaked data included usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as straight MD5 hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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