Impact & Downstream Threats
This breach carries high risk due to the nature of exposed data fields and the scale of affected records.
- Credential stuffing against reused passwords across other platforms
- Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses
Breach Intelligence
Executive Summary
In December 2018, BlankMediaGames—the developer behind the popular online game Town of Salem—suffered a major data breach that compromised over 7.6 million user records. Hackers exploited vulnerabilities in the site's phpBB forum software and leveraged poor password practices, such as administrative password reuse, to gain unauthorized access to the servers. The breach exposed sensitive data including email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, browser user agent details, hashed passwords (stored using the phpass algorithm), and records of user activity and purchases.,
About BlankMediaGames
Indie game development studio.
Data Points Exposed
Dark Web Verification
Status: Confirmed
- Dataset containing approximately 7.8M records identified in breach intelligence sources.
- The data is indexed and searchable across breach notification platforms.
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Frequently Asked Questions
In December 2018, BlankMediaGames experienced a data breach that exposed approximately 7.8M records containing personal information.
The exposed data includes fields such as activity history:website activity, email address, ip address, password, transaction history:purchase.
Approximately 7.8M records were affected based on current breach intelligence.
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- A public-facing individual
- A high-profile executive
- A customer of BlankMediaGames
- Or concerned about credential reuse
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