{"id":21389,"date":"2022-07-21T16:18:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T16:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/major-neopets-hack-may-compromise-tens-of-millions-of-accounts\/"},"modified":"2022-07-21T16:18:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T16:18:40","slug":"major-neopets-hack-may-compromise-tens-of-millions-of-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/major-neopets-hack-may-compromise-tens-of-millions-of-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Neopets hack may compromise tens of millions of accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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More than 69 million neopets<\/em> accounts may be compromised after a major data breach was revealed Wednesday. A neopets<\/em> representative initially confirmed via Discord that the company is aware of the breach and \u201cactively working on it.\u201d Hours later, a neopets<\/em> Representative published a statement on the site’s forum and on Twitter addressing the breach.<\/p>\n

\u201cneopets<\/em> recently became aware that customer data may have been stolen,\u201d it tweeted. \u201cWe immediately launched an investigation assisted by a leading forensics firm. We are also engaging law enforcement and enhancing the protections for our systems and our user data.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Neopets recently became aware that customer data may have been stolen. We immediately launched an investigation assisted by a leading forensics firm. We are also engaging law enforcement and enhancing the protections for our systems and our user data. (1\/3)<\/p>\n

\u2014 neopets (@Neopets) July 21, 2022<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

neopets <\/em>community website JellyNeo reported the breach Wednesday after the reported hacker offered to sell the \u201ccomplete database and source code,\u201d which includes emails, passwords, and other personal information, as well as live access to the database where a buyer can \u201cmodify data, credits or in-game pets,\u201d on a data breach forum. The hacker listed the data for a price of 4 bitcoin, or roughly $100,000. the neopets<\/em> team confirmed that email addresses and passwords have been compromised, and advised that players change their passwords on neopets<\/em> and elsewhere. It didn’t, however, mention the scope of the breach.<\/p>\n

neopets<\/em> does offer a paid subscription tier which removes ads and unlocks dedicated forums and some premium features. Players can also purchase NeoCash to spend in the NC Mall on various neopets<\/em> items to use on the website. It’s unclear if user credit card information is stored within Neopets’<\/em> database or if it was also compromised in the breach. The company has not responded to Polygon’s request for more information.<\/p>\n

neopets<\/em> is the virtual, create-a-pet website that you likely remember fondly from your youth. It’s currently owned by JumpStart Games, which acquired the site in 2014. JumpStart, for its part, was acquired by NetDragon in 2017. JumpStart was filed in 2021 after it announced the neopets<\/em> Metaverse Collection of NFTs \u2014 users were furious. still, neopets <\/em>has an active and dedicated player base, despite some questionable decisions and the site’s slow transition into the future; neopets <\/em>was once perpetually broken after Adobe ended Flash support in 2020, taking tons of features offline. The site’s been transitioning into HTML-5 and works a lot better, but now the major flaw seems to be security.<\/p>\n