SwordFantasy data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the January 2017 breach of SwordFantasy. For every breach, see Breaches.
The SwordFantasy data breach exposed 2,690,657 accounts from swordfantasy.com in January 2017. The data taken includes passwords, usernames, email addresses and IP addresses.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 26 Mar 2024, 7 years later. It is the 276th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
SwordFantasy’s breach included 4 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. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| 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, SwordFantasy among them, without showing the data.
- Change your SwordFantasy password.If the account still exists, sign in at SwordFantasy (swordfantasy.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 SwordFantasy.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 years later.
Breaches often stay hidden for a long time. Until it came out, people in it had no reason to change anything.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- Edmodo, May 2017, 43 million accounts
- LiveJournal, January 2017, 26 million accounts
- Zomato, May 2017, 16 million accounts
- Dueling Network, March 2017, 6.5 million accounts
- Bell (2017 breach), May 2017, 2.2 million accounts
- Coinmama, August 2017, 478,824 accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “SwordFantasy”, Have I Been Pwned, added 26 Mar 2024. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- swordfantasy.com, SwordFantasy’s website