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Lifeboat passwords5/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Regarding the fact that Lifeboat “tried to cover it up,” Hunt said, “Let me put the insanity of this in context: multiple people I contacted were left totally exposed with no idea that their long-held, tried-and-tested password they'd used everywhere was now in the hands of hackers.” Hunt told Motherboard he was notified of the Lifeboat breach by an individual “actively involved in trading who’s sent me other data in the past.” We retain no personal information (name, address, age) about our players, so none was leaked. When this happened early January we figured the best thing for our players was to quietly force a password reset without letting the hackers know they had limited time to act. Instead, a Lifeboat representative told Motherboard: In fact, it seems likely that Lifeboat didn’t notify any of the more than 7 million users. ![]() Why did Hennihenner not change his password after Lifeboat notified him about the breach? Because Lifeboat didn’t notify him about the breach, which occurred in January. But after learning Lifeboat had been breached and his password was floating around in the cyber ether, he got to work changing all his passwords. ![]() It was, and Hennihenner was spooked, worried about accounts he considers important, such as YouTube, Reddit, Twitter and Steam, because he had used the “same password since 2011.” Although he knew it was a “bad idea,” he had justified his password reuse by thinking he only used “safe websites” or thought no one would hack an account that is not connected to money. Hennihenner was notified by Have I Been Pwned’s Troy Hunt to help verify if a new breach was legit. A prime example of that was given by Hennihenner, a self-described “casual gamer” in Germany. The chances are much greater that many people reuse their Lifeboat password for other online sites. Of course it’s not online banking you should pray for the safety of any poor soul using the same password for a game that they use for banking as it likely happens. By the way, we recommend short, but difficult to guess passwords. In the words of Lifeboat, “Use a real email – You will need to use it if if you ever forget your password, so be sure it is valid. Once Minecraft PE is installed on a mobile device, a user connects to the Lifeboat Network and registers a username and password using a valid email address. In search results, Lifeboat Network is summarized as “Join eight million others in a game changing Minecraft Pocket Edition experience.” The Pocket Edition is the mobile version of Minecraft. Lifeboat is listed in Have I Been Pwned’s top 10 breaches it currently is ranked eighth with 7,089,395 compromised accounts. You’d think you’d hear about a hack that affects over 7 million people … unless the company chooses to “cover it up.” Thankfully that is changing thanks to security researcher Troy Hunt, via Have I Been Pwned. ![]()
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