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Epic Games forums breached, salted passwords nabbed

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Maybe it's of interest for someone: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/23 ... ds_nabbed/
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Oh you mean this one?
https://www.epicgames.com/unrealtournament/forums

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FNUCK! And again a new password... *sigh*
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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 :rock:
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:loool: :loool: :loool: :loool: :loool: :loool: :loool:

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.
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Yes, and now with Higor's passwords I can run amok on those forums and replace everywhere he put "ferbots" with "furrybots"!
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*insert evil laugh here*
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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/
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Sites are still down. Best to change passwords regardless of what they say.
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Now I have to look if I have used the PW somewhere else and replace it as well. I hope not.
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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... :thuup:
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Oh noes! My "Screenshots for Fun " thread on that forum is now in danger!!
:D :wtf: :twisted:
That's the real victim here.
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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.

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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.:P
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:
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Someone posted that to the Epic forum of which we speak.

I giggle my ass off everytime I see it!
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Lmao ^ Great pic. Need more!

Got this in email.
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