War Inc. Data Breach

What happened

In mid-2012, the real-time strategy game War Inc. suffered a data breach. The attack resulted in the exposure of over 1 million accounts including usernames, email addresses and salted MD5 hashes of passwords.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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