{"id":173072,"date":"2016-07-22T18:30:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T16:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=173072"},"modified":"2016-07-22T18:33:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T16:33:49","slug":"clash-of-kings-forum-hacked-1-6-million-accounts-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/173072-clash-of-kings-forum-hacked-1-6-million-accounts-stolen.html","title":{"rendered":"Clash of Kings forum hacked, 1.6 million accounts stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hacker breached the forum for the mobile game Clash of Kings on 14 July and stole the details of 1,597,717 user accounts, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/hacker-steals-forums-of-clash-of-kings-mobile-game\/\" target=\"_blank\">ZDNet reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the hacker\u00a0did not wish to be named, and provided a copy of the hacked database to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leakedsource.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">LeakedSource.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The database contains\u00a0usernames, email addresses, IP addresses, device identifiers, and Facebook data and access tokens. It also contained passwords, which were hashed and salted.<\/p>\n<p>ZDNet reported that\u00a0the hacker exploited a\u00a0known weakness\u00a0in an older version of the forum software vBulletin, which dates back to 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The version of the software that the Clash of Clans forum used\u00a0had a number of\u00a0vulnerabilities, which can be exploited with tools that you can\u00a0easily find\u00a0online.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More\u00a0security news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/172734-the-tricks-waiters-use-to-skim-your-bank-card.html\"><strong>The tricks waiters use to skim your bank card<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/170053-big-legal-problem-that-let-south-african-policeman-get-cellphone-records-from-operators.html\"><strong>Big legal problem that let South African policeman get cellphone records from operators<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/171807-arsmcor-getting-cyber-experts-to-investigate-anonymous-hack.html\"><strong>Armscor getting \u201ccyber experts\u201d to investigate Anonymous hack<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/171057-anonymous-opafrica-claims-hack-on-neotel-buyer-liquid-telecom.html\"><strong>Anonymous OpAfrica claims hack on Neotel-buyer Liquid Telecom<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/170329-standard-bank-was-hacked-in-r300-million-fraud-hit-report.html\"><strong>Standard Bank was hacked in R300 million fraud hit: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The forum for big mobile game Clash of Kings was hacked, and the details of close to 1.6 million user accounts stolen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":85485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,27],"tags":[36,38178,14575],"class_list":["post-173072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-security","tag-active","tag-clash-of-kings","tag-hack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}