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Last week, a hack of gaming forum TruckersMP which exposed the data of 80,000 users was uploaded. The Lifeboat hack is almost a mirror image of the last breach Hunt added to the site. Once the data is live, the Lifeboat breach will be included when people type in their email address to see if it is included in any of the data dumps known by the site. The seven million user accounts are being added to Have I Been Pwned. Hunt noted that sites quickly become online banking when their data is stolen and people are using the same password for multiple sites. Long passwords should always be used, regardless of the service they are protecting. The company’s approach to security is summed up in a guide on its website in which it advises “we recommend short, but difficult to guess passwords. Deciding to cover the incident up so as not to alert the attackers is irresponsible and dangerous. If the site had contacted its users, they would be able to change their password on all affected sites. “I’m used to seeing organisations genuinely have no idea they’ve been hacked but to see one that actually knew about it – a 7 million record breach at that – and then consciously silence the incident without telling anyone left me speechless.” “I was stunned when I read this – you mean they knew about the incident and decided to cover it up!?” said Hunt in a blog post. The account holder would be unaware of what was going on due to Lifeboat’s decision not to act.
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The hackers could use the data to access social media, banking and shopping sites.
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These are still very valuable resources because many people use the same password across multiple websites. The hackers made off with only email addresses and passwords. Lifeboat does not store any personal data such as names, addresses, ages or payment cards. The company defended itself in an email to Motherboard, saying it “figured the best thing for our players was to quietly force a password reset.” It added it didn’t want to let the hackers know they had limited time to act. It has only just contacted its users and admitted it was successfully hacked. The site has confirmed the data was stolen in January, over three months ago. Lifeboat has been criticised for its response to the breach. He was able to verify the authenticity of the data and is in the process of uploading it to Have I Been Pwned, allowing users to check if they were involved. Hunt was contacted by a trusted source who found the Lifeboat data on the dark web. Hunt runs the website Have I Been Pwned, a resource that allows users to see all the data breaches they have been involved in by typing their email address into a search tool. Security researcher Troy Hunt recently told Motherboard that the community has been hacked and over seven million user accounts stolen. The servers allow players from around the world to participate together in different game modes on the mobile edition of Minecraft. Lifeboat runs multiplayer servers for Minecraft: Pocket Edition on smartphones.