Nexus Mods Game Modding Site Discloses Data Breach

guest · Dec 19, 2019

Nexus Mods Game Modding Site Discloses Data Breach
December 19, 2019
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nexus-mods-game-modding-site-discloses-data-breach/

The popular game modification site Nexus Mods has announced a security incident that may have exposed the registration information for its users.

Nexus Mods is a site where users can download modifications for games such as Skyrim, Fallout, Witcher, Dragon Age, and many more. [...] a user base of close to 19 million registered members.
In a security notice posted to their site today, Nexus Mods has disclosed that an unauthorized actor hacked their services on November 8th, 2019 through an exploit in their legacy codebase.

Unfortunately, they can not rule out that the exploit was not used in the past to access other user data such as member's email addresses, password hashes, and salts.
Therefore, it is strongly suggested that all users change their passwords on the site, especially if you commonly reuse the same password at every site.
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