What Happened
In April 2023, GamePlanet.com, a video game website, suffered a data breach exposing information from over 1.7 million unique user accounts, including 1.7 million email addresses, full names (1.7 million records), telephone numbers (97.5% of accounts, totaling 506.3k), dates of birth, and passwords stored as hashed vBulletin credentials, with a total of 3.9 million data points compromised. The incident affected 100% of the site’s accounts, prompting recommendations for users to change passwords, enable two-factor authentication, and monitor for suspicious activity. No further details on the attack method or responsible actors were specified in available reports.
