Minehut data breach

From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated 17 Nov 2019

This article is about the May 2019 breach of Minehut. For every breach, see Breaches.

Minehut

The Minehut data breach exposed 396,533 accounts from minehut.com in May 2019. The data taken includes passwords and email addresses.^[1]

Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 17 Sep 2019, 4 months later. It is the 501st largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.

What was exposed

Minehut’s breach included 2 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.
Email addresses	Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine.

Check whether you’re in it.Search your email address on Have I Been Pwned. It tells you which breaches it appears in, Minehut among them, without showing the data.
Change your Minehut password.If the account still exists, sign in at Minehut (minehut.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 Minehut.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.

17 May 2019: the breach, as best it can be dated.
17 Sep 2019: Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, 4 months later.
17 Nov 2019: the entry was last updated.

Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:

See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.

^ Troy Hunt. “Minehut”, Have I Been Pwned, added 17 Sep 2019. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.