Earth 2 Data Breach
What Happened
In October 2024, 421k unique email addresses from the virtual earth game Earth 2 were derived from embedded Gravatar images. Appearing alongside player usernames, the root cause was related to how Gravatar presents links to avatars as MD5 hashes within consuming services, a feature Earth 2 advised has now been disabled on their platform. This incident did not expose any further personal information, passwords or financial data.
Compromised Data
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Affected Addresses:
421k
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Breach Occurred:
October 2024
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Added to HIBP:
7 Nov 2024
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Change Your Password
If you haven’t already changed the password affected by this breach, do so immediately on every account where it was used.
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