Stronghold Kingdoms Data Breach

What happened

In July 2018, the massive multiplayer online game Stronghold Kingdoms suffered a data breach. Almost 5.2 million accounts were impacted by the incident which exposed emails addresses, usernames and passwords stored as salted SHA-1 hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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