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Lifeboat hacks3/14/2023 ![]() I have public realms I can give invite codes to you if you want to make cheats for realms. Of some concern, also did not respond to a question concerning a claim made by Anthrax to in an encrypted chat that remains vulnerable to attack from a common attack method, and that anyone could acquire what he says are now 9.2 million users’ records.My friends and me have private realms. While the database does not have very sensitive information, with so many young people using and Lifeboat and the likelihood of reusing usernames, email addresses, and passwords across sites, perhaps the Federal Trade Commission might want to look at both companies to see if they have reasonable data security. Their tweet was subsequently deleted and replaced by a redacted version, but not quickly enough, perhaps. Somewhat shockingly to some, Lifeboat posted a tweet to that appeared to joke about the hacks. The Lifeboat hack appeared to have occurred in January. Unlike, the passwords in the Lifeboat database were MD5 and not SHA512+salt. is not the only Minecraft-related service to have been hacked this year. Data from 7 million Lifeboat users was found up for sale on the dark web in April. Indeed, not only has not made any public statement about the dump, but when Anthrax tweeted that his data had been caught up in the breach, their Twitter account suggested he was to blame for his You must’ve used a dictionary password. Neither Johan Land, the site’s registered owner, nor anyone else at has responded to two email requests asking them to confirm the authenticity of the data. There’s no notice on their web site, and their Twitter account makes no mention of the dump or what, if anything, users may need to do. Of the 10 emails, three bounced back as user unknown, and there were no responses from the others by the time of this publication.Īs far as can determine, has done nothing. did not attempt to identify or delete any duplicate records. sent inquiries to a small sample of the email addresses in the database, asking them to confirm their username/email address. The database, a copy of which was obtained by, contains 6,085,759 records. LEET CC DB IS NOW PUBLIC mega.nz/#!QMUXEAgA On September 29, the larger (February) database was made publicly available by “Anthrax” who tweeted: The data included usernames, email and IP addresses and SHA512 hashes.Ĭompromised data: Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Usernames, Website activity The incident reported by Softpedia had allegedly taken place earlier in the year, although the data set sent to HIBP was dated as recently as early September but contained only 2 million subscribers. In August 2016, the service for creating and running Pocket Minecraft edition servers known as Leet was reported as having suffered a data breach that impacted 6 million subscribers. ![]() Somewhere between February and September 29, however, there appears to have been another, more limited, breach, as reported: Leet You might see this often during this test period responded that they were aware and working on Yes, we are testing and upgrading our security systems at the moment. A search of Twitter reveals that “Anthrax” had claimed responsibility for the hack and that was aware of it in Did you know about this? /NPCzSfVSBg “For the vast majority of users, but not for all, there was also an email address associated with their account,” Cimpanu reported.Īs Cimpanu also reported, there was talk that the hack had actually occurred back in February. According to Softpedia at the time, there were over 6 million users’ records, consisting of username, hashed password, registration date, last login date, and user ID. ![]() In August, LeakedSoure informed Softpedia that it had received the full database and source of, a service for creating and running Minecraft Pocket Edition servers.
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