Hacker Makes Off with 1.6 Million ‘Clash of Kings’ Records

A hacker has set his sights on the official forum of the extremely popular mobile game “Clash of Kings”, making off with almost 1.6 million accounts.

That’s according to new reports that surfaced on Friday, which claim that on 14 July the nameless attacker was able to exploit outdated or lax security being run on the forum (such as a failure to use basic HTTPS website encryption) before giving a copy of the leaked database to breach notification site LeakedSource.com.

It is believed said database contains information such as usernames, email addresses, IP addresses, device indentifiers along with Facebook data access and tokens (among other things). Passwords stored in the database are hashed and salted.

LeakedSource has now added the total 1,597,717 stolen records to its systems.

Ryan Wilk, director at NuData Security, said this hack is just another example that highlights the need for the industry, as a whole, to stay vigilant because PII data continues to be targeted wherever it may live and hackers aren’t taking the summer off. For the full article click here 

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