GameSprite 2019 Data Breach
Platform · Online gaming and player services · Gaming platform · Global
GameSprite Gaming Platform Breach (2019): 6.2 Million Player Accounts Including Passwords Exposed
defunct gaming platform
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
8/100
Lower riskHigher risk
Lower: limited current risk based on data value and recency.
Data Sensitivity i
StandardExposed data is largely lower-sensitivity. Standard identity-protection precautions are advised.
6.2MRecords
2019Year
The Breach Risk Index (BRI) is a proprietary 0–100 score rating how dangerous a breach is right now, based on how recently the data has been circulating on the dark web and how valuable it is to attackers.
Breach Summary
In December 2019, the now-defunct gaming platform GameSprite (gamesprite.me) suffered a data breach exposing ~6.16 million unique email addresses along with usernames, IP addresses, and salted MD5 password hashes. The site was compromised through its Discuz! forum admin panel, part of a series of attacks on gaming sites pivoting from the animegame.me server. The breach went undetected for ~4 years, being added to Have I Been Pwned in October 2023.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
10 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine
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6.2M records analyzed
About GameSprite
GameSprite (gamesprite.me) was a now-defunct online gaming platform/forum with player accounts.
Why They Hold Your Data
* Defunct gaming platform with account-based access and likely community or player-service functions tied to online gaming use. The probable data context includes usernames, emails, passwords, and basic platform account records.
Recent Developments
GameSprite was breached on December 17, 2019 via a Discuz! forum admin-panel compromise (part of a string of attacks pivoting from the animegame.me server that hit several gaming sites). Now defunct, the breach was added to Have I Been Pwned in October 2023, about four years after it occurred.
Data Points Exposed
4 verified field types
Email Address
IP Address
Password High
Username
Breach Impact
The exposure of ~6.16 million emails, usernames, IP addresses, and salted MD5 passwords enables credential-stuffing and account-takeover where passwords were reused, plus targeted phishing. As a defunct platform, remediation is limited to password-reuse mitigation.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
• Credential stuffing and account takeover against reused passwords (salted MD5) | • Targeted phishing using exposed emails
Principal Risk Advisory
What this means for a principal
A consumer-service breach: contact and account data supports phishing, account takeover and profile enrichment. For a high-profile principal the main risk is credible impersonation and enrichment of existing exposure.
What You Should Do
- Reset any reused passwords and enable MFA on email first, then financial accounts.
- Do not use unofficial 'am I affected' lookups; several are themselves harvesting operations.
How ObscureIQ Can Help
- Corpus confirmation: determine whether and where the principal (plus household and staff) appear in this dataset and which specific fields are exposed for them.
- Exposure mapping: cross-reference the exposed identifiers against broker-available data to size and prioritize the principal's wider footprint.
- ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).
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