Minecraft Hack Reveals Seven Million Passwords

Data for users of the Liferaft site is reportedly being traded on the dark net pursuing a violation of the game’s servers in January.
Data for users of the Liferaft site is reportedly being traded on the dark net pursuing. Email addresses and passwords relating to more than seven millions of users of the #Minecraft site Lifeboat hawked throughout sites that trade in stolen data.
The Lifeboat network is a multiplayer population running servers that allow members of the smartphone version of Minecraft to play various versions of the game.
The information is interpreted to have been weakly climbed while on the servers and chopped in January, although the breach only issued to light recently.iolation of the game’s servers in January.
Computer security specialist Troy Hunt declares to have received a copy of the email list from someone who shops in stolen data, and it alleged the email addresses are circulating on darknet websites.
Mr. Hunt claimed Lifeboat was aware of the conflict for three months before the violation was made public but chose not to release Minecraft users.
The data was said to have been climbed using an MD5 hash, but Mr. Hunt declares some of the passwords used were so limited he was able to identify them by posting the hash into Google.
In a report given to Motherboard, Lifeboat alleged it had limited any potential damage by covertly compelling users to reset their passwords.
“When this occurred (in) early January we figured the best thing for our players was to force quietly a password reset without letting the hackers know they had limited time to act,” a spokesman told the site.
“We have not received any rumors of anyone being hurt by this.”
Minecraft has been downloaded more than 100 million times since it started online in 2009.
Its creator Markus Persson recently protested that the wealth the game brought him had left him lonely and lacking in motivation.