Minehut Data Breach

What happened

In May 2019, the Minecraft server website Minehut suffered a data breach. The company advised a database backup had been obtained after which they subsequently notified all impacted users. 397k email addresses from the incident were provided to HIBP. A data set with both email addresses and bcrypt password hashes was also later provided to HIBP.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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