HTH Studios 2018 Data Breach

HTH Studios 2018 Data Breach

Vice / Adult

HTH Studios 2018 Data Breach

An adult furry interactive game creator.

Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Limited DisclosureThis breach is handled differently. Because being connected to it can itself be sensitive, we do not confirm anyone’s presence publicly. Use the private exposure check at the bottom of this page.
Breach Risk Index i
44/100
Lower riskHigher risk
Moderate: notable exposure with meaningful misuse potential.
Data Sensitivity i
Restricted
Being associated with this breach can itself be harmful. Disclosure is limited and presence is not confirmed to unverified parties.
412KRecords
2018Year

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.

Crucial data exposed
AddressPhysical address
Classification Tags
ViceAdult2018

Breach Summary

In August 2018, the adult furry interactive game creator HTH Studios suffered a data breach impacting multiple repositories of customer data. Several months later, the data surfaced on a popular hacking forum and included 411k unique email addresses along with physical and IP addresses, names, orders, salted SHA-1 and salted MD5 hashes. HTH Studios is aware of the incident. As this breach has been flagged as sensitive, it is not publicly searchable.

Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.

10 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine

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412K records analyzed

About HTH Studios

HTH Studios is an adult furry interactive game creator.

Why They Hold Your Data

HTH Studios is an adult furry interactive game creator. Services like this typically hold dates of birth, email addresses, names, IP addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses, transaction history, device/browser data, usernames through account registration and normal operations.

Recent Developments

The HTH Studios dataset circulated publicly; treat as part of the standing exposure landscape.

Data Points Exposed

9 verified field types
Date of Birth High
Email Address
Full Name
IP Address
Phone Number
Physical address High
Transaction History
User Agent
Username

Breach Impact

The exposure created downstream fraud and phishing risk for those affected and drew scrutiny of HTH Studios's data protection.

Exploitation & Downstream Threats

• Identity verification bypass using name + date of birth combination | • SIM swap attacks where phone numbers are present | • Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses | • Doxxing risk from physical address exposure

Principal Risk Advisory

What this means for a principal

An intimate-data breach: preferences, orientation or explicit content linked to an identity create acute coercion and blackmail exposure. For a high-profile principal this is targeting-grade, not merely identity-theft-grade: the combination lets an adversary locate, impersonate, or pressure the principal with little additional work.

What You Should Do

  1. Treat the home address as exposed: review mail and package handling and physical-security routines, and brief household staff to verify unusual requests.
  2. Guard against SIM-swap and vishing: add a carrier port-out PIN and verify any 'support' calls independently.
  3. Do not use unofficial 'am I affected' lookups; several are themselves harvesting operations.

How ObscureIQ Can Help

  1. Corpus confirmation: determine whether and where the principal (plus household and staff) appear in this dataset and which specific fields are exposed for them.
  2. Exposure mapping and footprint neutralization: cross-reference against broker-available data and suppress still-removable elements, prioritizing address and phone, since this record re-seeds broker networks.
  3. ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).

Protect Yourself

Protect Yourself: Limited Disclosure

Check If You’re Affected: Verification Required

Because being associated with this breach can itself be harmful, we do not confirm whether anyone appears in it to unverified parties. Verify your identity to privately check whether your own data appears in this breach or related indexes.

We will only reveal whether a specific person appears in this breach to that person.

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