R2Games 2015 Data Breach
Platform · Online gaming and player community services · Browser gaming platform · Global
R2Games Browser Gaming Platform Breach (2015): 22 Million Player Accounts Including Passwords Exposed
online games community/forum
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.
22.3MRecords
2015Year
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 late 2015, R2Games account data was compromised via its vBulletin-based forum and later circulated in tranches, ultimately totaling roughly 22.3 million accounts indexed publicly. Exposed data included email addresses, IP addresses, usernames, and passwords stored as weakly implemented salted hashes that were rapidly cracked. A subset of records contained optional profile data such as instant-messenger IDs, birthdates, and Facebook identifiers.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
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22.3M records analyzed
About R2Games
Reality Squared Games (R2Games) is a publisher of free-to-play browser and mobile games, including titles such as Wartune and Crystal Saga, distributed to a global audience through its web portal and community forums.
Why They Hold Your Data
Online game portals collect player accounts, emails, payment-linked records, gameplay activity, and community interactions across multiple browser-game titles.
Recent Developments
R2Games continued operating its game portfolio after the incident. Its community forum historically ran on vBulletin, the platform implicated in the credential exposure.
Data Points Exposed
4 verified field types
Email Address
IP Address
Password High
Username
Breach Impact
The large volume of email/username pairs with crackable passwords created durable credential-stuffing exposure across gaming and non-gaming services where users reused credentials.
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
- 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).
This breach is linked to the mail.ru vBulletin (2016) campaign (2016 related breaches tracked by ObscureIQ). See the full campaign analysis →
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