SoarGames Data Breach

What happened

In December 2019, the now defunct gaming website SoarGames suffered a data breach that exposed 4.8M unique email addresses. The impacted data included usernames, email and IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes. A significant number of the email addresses appeared to have been generated as opposed to organically provided by the user.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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