Roll20 2018 Data Breach

Roll20 2018 Data Breach: ~4 Million Tabletop-Gaming Accounts Exposed

Gaming / Virtual Tabletop / Consumer

Roll20 2018 Data Breach: ~4 Million Tabletop-Gaming Accounts Exposed

Online virtual-tabletop platform for tabletop role-playing games.

Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
34/100
Lower riskHigher risk
Moderate: notable exposure with meaningful misuse potential.
Data Sensitivity i
Elevated
Exposed data raises the risk of fraud, targeting, and impersonation. Proactive steps are warranted.
4.0MRecords
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
FinancialCredit Card
Classification Tags
Cloud MisconfigurationGamingVideo GamesUsers2018

Breach Summary

In December 2018, Roll20 suffered a breach affecting almost 4 million users, exposing email and IP addresses, names, bcrypt password hashes and the last four digits of payment cards.

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

10 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine

Querying breach corpus…
Cross-referencing exposed field types…
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4.0M records analyzed

About Roll20

Roll20 is an online virtual-tabletop platform that lets players run tabletop role-playing games remotely with maps, dice, video and character tools.

Why They Hold Your Data

A virtual-tabletop platform holds player identity and contact data, IP addresses, hashed passwords and, for subscribers, the last four digits of payment cards.

Recent Developments

Roll20 disclosed the December 2018 breach in early 2019, forced password resets and notified users.

Data Points Exposed

5 verified field types
Credit Card Critical
Email Address
Full Name
IP Address
Password High

Breach Impact

Roll20 reset affected passwords and notified its player community; the breach became part of the broadly-traded 2018-2019 breach corpus.

Exploitation & Downstream Threats

• Credential stuffing against reused passwords across other platforms | • Financial fraud using exposed financial profile data | • 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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