Mortal Online 2018 Data Breach
Gaming / Video Games
Mortal Online 2018 Data Breach
A video games service in the gaming sector.
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
12/100
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.
607KRecords
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
Breach Summary
In June 2018, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) Mortal Online suffered a data breach. A file containing 570k email addresses and cracked passwords was subsequently distributed online. A larger more complete file containing 607k email addresses with original unsalted MD5 password hashes along with names, usernames and physical addresses was later provided and the original breach in HIBP was updated accordingly.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
10 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine
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607K records analyzed
About Mortal Online
Mortal Online is a video games service in the gaming sector.
Why They Hold Your Data
Mortal Online is a video games service in the gaming sector. Services like this typically hold email addresses, names, passwords, physical addresses, usernames through account registration and normal operations.
Recent Developments
The Mortal Online dataset circulated publicly; treat as part of the standing exposure landscape.
Data Points Exposed
5 verified field types
Email Address
Full Name
Password High
Physical address High
Username
Breach Impact
The exposure of credentials alongside personal data heightened account-takeover and reuse risk for Mortal Online users and drew scrutiny of its data protection.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
• Credential stuffing against reused passwords across other platforms | • Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses | • Doxxing risk from physical address exposure
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 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
- Treat the home address as exposed: review mail and package handling and physical-security routines, and brief household staff to verify unusual requests.
- 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 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.
- ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).
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