Planet Calypso Data Breach

What happened

In approximately July 2019, the forums for the Planet Calypso game suffered a data breach. The breach of the vBulletin based forum exposed email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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