Stuart Dredge reports:
A list of email addresses and passwords for Minecraft players published online in January was not the result of a security breach at developer Mojang, according to its parent company, Microsoft.
Personal details for more than 1,800 players’ accounts were published online in plain-text format, sparking fears that hackers had gained access to Mojang’s customer database – which includes more than 100m registered accounts for the PC version of Minecraft.
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Microsoft has now confirmed that there was no such breach, meaning that the email addresses and passwords were obtained through other means before being published: for example, through email phishing attacks or malware installed on players’ computers.
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