Earth 2

What Happened

In October 2024, 421k unique email addresses from the virtual earth game Earth 2 were derived from embedded Gravatar images. Appearing alongside player usernames, the root cause was related to how Gravatar presents links to avatars as MD5 hashes within consuming services, a feature Earth 2 advised has now been disabled on their platform. This incident did not expose any further personal information, passwords or financial data.

Compromised Data

Email addresses
Usernames

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    421 thousand

  • Breach Occurred:

    October 2024

  • Added to HIBP:

    7 Nov 2024

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