Underworld Empire Data Breach

What happened

In April 2017, the vBulletin forum for the Underworld Empire game suffered a data breach that exposed 429k accounts. The data was then posted to a hacking forum in mid-February 2018 where it was made available to download. The source data contained IP and email addresses, usernames and salted MD5 hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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