BlankMediaGames Data Breach

What Happened

In December 2018, the Town of Salem website produced by BlankMediaGames suffered a data breach. Reported to HIBP by DeHashed, the data contained 7.6M unique user email addresses alongside usernames, IP addresses, purchase histories and passwords stored as phpass hashes. DeHashed made multiple attempts to contact BlankMediaGames over various channels and many days but had yet to receive a response at the time of publishing.

Compromised Data

Browser user agent details
Email addresses
IP addresses
Passwords
Purchases
Usernames
Website activity

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    7.6 million

  • Breach Occurred:

    December 2018

  • Added to HIBP:

    2 Jan 2019

Recommended Actions

Change Your Password

If you haven’t already changed the password affected by this breach, do so immediately on every account where it was used.

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