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Over seven million members of the independent Minecraft “Lifeboat” community have had their security and privacy put at risk after hackers breached servers and stole usernames, email addresses and MD5-hashed passwords.7 million Minecraft Pocket Edition players put at risk after Lifeboat hack

Over seven million members of the independent Minecraft “Lifeboat” community have had their security and privacy put at risk after hackers breached servers and stole usernames, email addresses and MD5-hashed passwords.

It’s important to note that only players of the smartphone edition of Minecraft were affected, and even then only if they were members of the independent “Lifeboat” community, which runs a variety of servers offering free-to-play multi-player games on the Minecraft platform.

All the same, Lifeboat has over seven million users. And unsalted MD5 hashes are a notoriously weak way to secure passwords, making it trivial for criminals to crack.

 

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