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Epic Games forums breached, salted passwords nabbed
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 5:52 pm
by Barbie
Re: Epic Games forums breached, salted passwords nabbed
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 11:24 pm
by papercoffee
Oh you mean this one?
https://www.epicgames.com/unrealtournament/forums
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FNUCK! And again a new password... *sigh*
Re: Epic Games forums breached, salted passwords nabbed
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2016 12:16 am
by rjmno1
Yes i saw the news on tweakers.net its a dutch techy hardware website.
Maby i can login with mine old acount but if not i have to make a new one.
in dutch this information:
https://tweakers.net/nieuws/114871/epic ... mhack.html
It was a forum hack.
Mine acount is still active i did just a login and downloading ut 4 now 5,4 gb big
Re: Epic Games forums breached, salted passwords nabbed
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2016 12:42 am
by Higor
My password format makes me secure against all these shitty attacks and allows me to use countless services without having to remember each one.
Try it:
passwordbase (lower case) + service (uppercase)
If you make the passwordbase part super long (like a phrase or something) then it's impossible to reverse the salt... as long as you never use the real passwordbase alone as password.
Example:
thisismypassword22UT99
thisismypassword22EPIC
thisismypassword22GIT
etc.
BTW, never do a salt lookup of these passwords or someone might actually be able to reverse it.
Re: Epic Games forums breached, salted passwords nabbed
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2016 1:22 am
by EvilGrins
Re: Epic Games forums breached, salted passwords nabbed
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2016 5:00 am
by Chamberly
I was reading the news about this but there wasn't anything too much alarming. But if I remembered... here is the link I read it:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/08/the-fo ... -breached/
Re: Epic Games forums breached, salted passwords nabbed
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2016 5:51 am
by Carbon
Sites are still down. Best to change passwords regardless of what they say.
Re: Epic Games forums breached, salted passwords nabbed
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2016 10:30 am
by papercoffee
Now I have to look if I have used the PW somewhere else and replace it as well. I hope not.
Re: Epic Games forums breached, salted passwords nabbed
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2016 11:31 am
by jaypeezy
Many thanks for the heads up. Considering this site and UnrealSP are my primary sources for UT/Unreal related info, I may not have otherwise read about this...
Re: Epic Games forums breached, salted passwords nabbed
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 12:40 am
by EvilGrins
Oh noes! My "Screenshots for Fun " thread on that forum is now in danger!!
That's the real victim here.
Re: Epic Games forums breached, salted passwords nabbed
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 4:57 am
by Carbon
EvilGrins wrote:Oh noes! My "Screenshots for Fun " thread on that forum is now in danger!!
That's the real victim here.
Thankfully it is backed up on at least 3 other forums.
Re: Epic Games forums breached, salted passwords nabbed
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 6:13 am
by EvilGrins
Carbon wrote:EvilGrins wrote:Oh noes! My "Screenshots for Fun " thread on that forum is now in danger!!
Thankfully it is backed up on at least 3 other forums.
Actually, I try not to post the same stuff to each forum I've got one on.
That and there's some real prizes from other posters, like this gem:
Someone posted that to the Epic forum of which we speak.
I giggle my ass off everytime I see it!
Re: Epic Games forums breached, salted passwords nabbed
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 11:07 pm
by Chamberly
Lmao ^ Great pic. Need more!
Got this in email.
