#LIFEBOAT HACK MINECRAFT PASSWORD#

The passwords, according to Hunt, had been stored with a weak MD5 hash and were not salted, meaning it was “very close to useless cryptographic storage.” Combine that with Lifeboat not alerting users to the breach, and Hunt said, “I’m not sure that I’ve seen such a blatant disregard for personal account information before. Even if developers of a new site are careful with setting up account management features, “people will use credentials that will unlock their bank account or, even worse, their email.” “Like it or not, this is what people do,” Hunt wrote. A prime example of that was given by Hennihenner, a self-described “casual gamer” in Germany.

#LIFEBOAT HACK MINECRAFT PASSWORD#

The chances are much greater that many people reuse their Lifeboat password for other online sites. Of course it’s not online banking you should pray for the safety of any poor soul using the same password for a game that they use for banking as it likely happens. By the way, we recommend short, but difficult to guess passwords. In the words of Lifeboat, “Use a real email – You will need to use it if if you ever forget your password, so be sure it is valid. Once Minecraft PE is installed on a mobile device, a user connects to the Lifeboat Network and registers a username and password using a valid email address. In search results, Lifeboat Network is summarized as “Join eight million others in a game changing Minecraft Pocket Edition experience.” The Pocket Edition is the mobile version of Minecraft. Lifeboat is listed in Have I Been Pwned’s top 10 breaches it currently is ranked eighth with 7,089,395 compromised accounts.

You’d think you’d hear about a hack that affects over 7 million people … unless the company chooses to “cover it up.” Thankfully that is changing thanks to security researcher Troy Hunt, via Have I Been Pwned.

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