

”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. If they alerted people about passwords being reset they would’ve basically been telling the hackers to hurry up and ALL data would’ve been stolen,” according to a statement released by LifeBoat. LifeBoat didn’t inform users until a security researcher found out the data An important fact about the breach is that it took place in 2015 but the company decided to hide it from the users, however, the security researcher Troy Hunt got hold of the list of affected users along with the data, reports the BBC. The stolen data includes personal information of gamers including their login emails and passwords.

The data is now available for sale on Dark Weband Lifeboat has confirmed the breach. Lifeboat, a platform that provides gamers with an option to run servers for playing customised and multiplayer version of Minecraft has been hacked and login details of seven million users have been stolen. This site is best experienced using a tablet or computer, with Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, or Mozilla Firefox.Minecraft users have to change their passwords ASAP because Lifeboat company didn’t disclose about the data breach that took place in early 2015.

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