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Over 8 million passwords and email addresses leaked from Gamigo

posted onJuly 24, 2012
by l33tdawg

Hackers have posted more than 8 million passwords and email addresses obtained from Gamigo, a free gaming site based out of Germany.

Gamigo was initially hacked in March. At the time, the site required all registered users to create new passwords. Hackers posted the personal information earlier this month on a password-cracking forum called Insider Pro, according to Forbes.

“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.”

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