The site appears to have been running an out-of-date version of vBulletin, meaning that it had not been updated to patch against a cavalcade of security vulnerabilities found in the software in recent years. It is believed that the hackers exploited a security vulnerability in vBulletin, the software used to power the Clash of Kings forum, to gain access to the sensitive data.
As ZDNet explains, Clash of Kings is one of the most popular mobile games, with over 100 million installs on the Android platform alone.įurthermore, although forum users’ password details were stored in the breached database, these were stored in a salted and hashed form – making it more difficult for hackers to exploit those credentials.Īnd while whoever hacked the Clash of Kings forum is currently a mystery, it is thought that it is known how the site was breached. Your details are only at risk if you registered an account on the Clash of Kings forum. It’s important to realise that the breach does not appear to impact all players of the popular Clash of Kings game. In addition, password details are stored in the breached database – albeit in a salted and hashed form. The details of almost 1.6 million players of a popular smartphone game have reportedly been stolen after the official forums of “Clash of Kings” game were hacked.Īs ZDNet reports, hackers were able to break into the strategy war game forum – run by Chinese firm Elex – and make off with the usernames, email addresses, IP addresses, device identifiers and (if players had logged in using their social network) Facebook data and access tokens of 1,597,717 players. Vulnerable version of vBulletin thought to be responsible for data breach which could impact almost 1.6 million game players.
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