Pixel Federation Data Breach

What happened

In December 2013, a breach of the web-based game community based in Slovakia exposed over 38,000 accounts which were promptly posted online. The breach included email addresses and unsalted MD5 hashed passwords, many of which were easily converted back to plain text.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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