{"id":29857,"date":"2017-11-20T02:18:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T21:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/?p=29857"},"modified":"2019-12-27T06:49:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T01:49:11","slug":"gog-password-leak-may-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/gog-password-leak-may-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: GoG Password Leak May Have Happened Change Your Passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"
UPDATE: After correspondence with Lukasz Kukawski<\/a>, the PR Guy over at GoG who has stated the following:<\/p>\n “We’ve not detected anything that would seem like a breach of data on our end \u2013 but we are aware of the reports and we are monitoring the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n As for what you can do, drop by https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com to see if your credentials have ever been compromised (keep in mind that list is not all-encompasing, but it’s a great pointer).<\/span><\/p>\n If you are compromised make sure to change your password. Definitely have a unique password for your email account, and keep 2-step on. As long as you’re the only one with access to your email account, 2-step is just about impenetrable.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n There are an increased number of reports coming in from the official forums of GoG (formerly Good Old Games<\/span>) that suggests a GoG password leak has occurred, we highly recommend you enable 2-Factor Authentication if you haven’t already and change your password.<\/p>\n GoG is a popular online video games<\/a> store that is better known for selling retro games at some truly delectable prices, the service has been known to have its security faults as in 2015 and in-between there have been incidents of hackers intruding into many customers accounts.<\/p>\n This time around, there are increase in the number of reports coming<\/a> in that suggest a leak that is allowing a lot of users passwords to be reset from various parts of Brazil.<\/p>\n You can see the first page of the official forum discussing<\/a> this and how the pages go on to show the number of occurrences is something that suggest that this isn’t just an isolated incident.<\/p>\n