Possible credential stuffing attack could have affected 500,000 Activision gamer accounts
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According to reports, more than 500,000 Activision accounts may have been hacked with login data being compromised. The eSports site Dexerto has reported that a data breach occurred on Sunday, September 20. The credentials to access these accounts are, Dexerto said, being leaked publicly, and account details changed to prevent easy recovery by the rightful owners. Activision accounts are mostly used by players of the hugely popular Call of Duty franchise.
"This is a substantial breach," Martin Jartelius, CSO at Outpost24, said, "in parts, the clean-up will be a large undertaking for Activision, we can only hope backups allow restoring original contact data, resetting access and managing the users who still cannot regain access which should be a smaller group."
Several eSports and gaming accounts on Twitter have also reported the suspected breach. The first was @Okami, founder of Respawnable, who tweeted, "It's legit," adding that players should change their account passwords immediately.
Changing your password, if you still have access to your account, is vital, as is changing passwords at any other site or service where you use the same password. This should be to something long and strong, the use of a password manager will help you here.
This kind of mass account takeover is often associated with credential stuffing attacks where shared passwords from other compromises are used. It's too early to say that i ..
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