Mortal Online data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the June 2018 breach of Mortal Online. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Mortal Online data breach exposed 606,637 accounts from mortalonline.com in June 2018. The data taken includes passwords, usernames, names, physical addresses and email addresses.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 31 Aug 2018, 2 months later. It is the 463rd largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Mortal Online’s breach included 5 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. |
| Names | Makes scam messages personal enough to believe. |
| Physical addresses | Used to prove who you are, and for scam letters and parcels. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
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, Mortal Online among them, without showing the data.
- Change your Mortal Online password.If the account still exists, sign in at Mortal Online (mortalonline.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 Mortal Online.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, 2 months later.
- : the entry was last updated.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- Chegg, April 2018, 40 million accounts
- StockX, July 2019, 6.8 million accounts
- 123RF, March 2020, 8.7 million accounts
- Animal Jam, October 2020, 7.1 million accounts
- LiveAuctioneers, June 2020, 3.4 million accounts
- NetGalley, December 2020, 1.4 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “Mortal Online”, Have I Been Pwned, added 31 Aug 2018. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- mortalonline.com, Mortal Online’s website