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wow-gold.de Data Breach (2012)

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Disclosed

January 1, 2012

5199 days ago

Records

Undisclosed

Confirmed

Root Cause

Hacking

Industry

Technology

Description

Anonymous released a video to reveal their intentions of targeting online game websites that fail to properly protect their customers. To show they’re serious, they already breached a website and leaked tons of information from its databases. “Many users of the Internet actively playing online games, but none of the seller cares about privacy,” Anonymous states. Their first victim is a German website, owned by RandyRun, called Wow-Gold.de. Even though the website claims to be protected by McAfee, baring the McAfee Secure trustmark to prove it, Anonymous hackers say they didn’t have any trouble breaching their security and leaking private information such as names, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers and even passwords.

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