Password Data for Over 2.2 Million Users of Currency and Gaming Sites Dumped Online

Password Data for Over 2.2 Million Users of Currency and Gaming Sites Dumped Online
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Password data and other personal information belonging to as many as 2.2 million users of two websites—one a cryptocurrency wallet service and the other a gaming bot provider—have been posted online, according to Troy Hunt, the security researcher behind the Have I Been Pwned breach notification service.


One haul includes personal information for as many as 1.4 million accounts from the GateHub cryptocurrency wallet service. The other contains data for about 800,000 accounts on RuneScape bot provider EpicBot. The databases include registered email addresses and passwords that were password million users currency gaming sites dumped online