Armor Games data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the January 2019 breach of Armor Games. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Armor Games data breach exposed 10,604,307 accounts from armorgames.com in January 2019. The data taken includes passwords, usernames, dates of birth and email addresses and 4 more kinds of data.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 20 Jul 2019, 7 months later. It is the 128th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Armor Games’s breach included 8 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:
| Data | What it’s used for |
|---|---|
| Passwords | Criminals try leaked passwords on email, banking and shopping sites, because people reuse them. |
| Usernames | Half of a login. With a reused password, it opens other accounts. |
| Dates of birth | Used to prove who you are to banks and phone companies. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| Bios | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
| Genders | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
| Geographic locations | Roughly where you live. |
| IP addresses | Roughly where you were when you used the service. |
What to do
- Check whether you’re in it.Search your email address on Have I Been Pwned. It tells you which breaches it appears in, Armor Games among them, without showing the data.
- Change your Armor Games password.If the account still exists, sign in at Armor Games (armorgames.com) and change it.
- Change it anywhere you used the same one.Start with your email, then banking and shopping. Leaked passwords are tried on other sites automatically, within days.
- Use a password manager and two-step sign-in.A different password for every site means one breach can’t open the rest. Two-step sign-in stops a leaked password working on its own.
- Distrust messages that mention Armor Games.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
Timeline
- : the breach, as best it can be dated.
- : Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, 7 months later.
- : the entry was last updated.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- TaiLieu, November 2019, 7.3 million accounts
- AlpineReplay, August 2019, 898,681 accounts
- Wattpad, June 2020, 269 million accounts
- 500px, July 2018, 15 million accounts
- Wishbone (2020), January 2020, 9.7 million accounts
- Animal Jam, October 2020, 7.1 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “Armor Games”, Have I Been Pwned, added 20 Jul 2019. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- armorgames.com, Armor Games’s website