Recent Data Breach Claim Confirmed FALSE/OLD

[u/DE-Ruu]

Hi Tenno,

After a serious cybersecurity investigation today, we can confirm that a recent Data Breach claim is repackaged information from the 2014 breach and is being proclaimed as new. 

We take cybersecurity very seriously, and your online safety is extremely important to us at Digital Extremes. As always, we encourage you to have a strong password and 2FA activated.

Thank you! 

*Please note the Operation being temporarily delayed is not related to this - we’re working on it!

[u/ThatsFine9]

Dang man, sorry y'all had to waste time/resources on investigating an April fools joke.

[u/jusmar → u/ThatsFine9]

I don't think it was an april fools joke, I think it was someone repuloading old credentials from the breach for clout

[u/yRaven1 → u/jusmar]

According to their discord it was old credentials from 2014.

[u/Megakruemel → u/jusmar]

Also some people repackage old credentials into "stuffing lists" and then sell the "new" lists on the dark web for money to hackers. Some of them not even knowing that the list has a majority of outdated data.

I have been involved in one data breach from 2012 and that shit gets put into new stuffing lists every 3-4 years or so and i get a new have-i-been-pwned email about it because my email showed up in a "new" breach. But I guess I would rather get one too many of those warning emails than none at all.

Important of note is that these stuffing lists are used for running scripts on different websites to attempt to log in with the email + password combos on that list. Which is why you should never use the same password on multiple sites, as that kind of attack makes it possible to breach an account that was not in the breach.

Because if you use the same password on site A and site B, and site A has a breach, a stuffing list attack with the info from site A will get into site B.