Pokémon Creed 2014 Data Breach

Pokémon Creed 2014 Data Breach

Gaming / Video Games

Pokémon Creed 2014 Data Breach

A video games service in the gaming sector.

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
Standard
Exposed data is largely lower-sensitivity. Standard identity-protection precautions are advised.
116KRecords
2014Year

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Classification Tags
GamingVideo GamesUsers2014

Breach Summary

In August 2014, the Pokémon RPG website Pokémon Creed was hacked after a dispute with rival site, Pokémon Dusk. In a post on Facebook, "Cruz Dusk" announced the hack then pasted the dumped MySQL database on pkmndusk.in. The breached data included over 116k usernames, email addresses and plain text passwords.

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

10 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine

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116K records analyzed

About Pokémon Creed

Pokémon Creed is a video games service in the gaming sector.

Why They Hold Your Data

Pokémon Creed is a video games service in the gaming sector. Services like this typically hold activity history, email addresses, gender, IP addresses, passwords, usernames through account registration and normal operations.

Recent Developments

The Pokémon Creed dataset circulated publicly; treat as part of the standing exposure landscape.

Data Points Exposed

6 verified field types
Activity History
Email Address
Gender
IP Address
Password High
Username

Breach Impact

The exposure of credentials alongside personal data heightened account-takeover and reuse risk for Pokémon Creed 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

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

  1. Reset any reused passwords and enable MFA on email first, then financial accounts.
  2. 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: cross-reference the exposed identifiers against broker-available data to size and prioritize the principal's wider footprint.
  3. ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).

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