Hackers have posted more than 8 million passwords and email addresses obtained from Gamigo, a free gaming site based out of Germany.
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“It’s the largest leak I’ve ever actually seen,” Steve Thomas, founder of PwnedList, told Forbes. His site provides a tool that allows users to see if hackers have compromised their email addresses. “When this breach originally happened, the data wasn’t released, so it wasn’t a big concern. Now eight million email addresses and passwords have been online — live data for any hacker to see.”
If you were a registered user at Gamigo, you can check PwnedList to see if your information leaked, though it’s best to change any duplicate passwords anyway.