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Mojang Clarifies Account Breach, Says Players Fell Prey to Phishing Scam

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Shawn Hopkins

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January 22, 2015

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It was a bit startling recently to read that at least 1,800 Minecraft accounts had been compromised, their details posted on the internet. Mojang has made a blog post explaining what happened.

First, Mojang, says, don’t call it a hack.

“No! We haven’t been hacked. A bunch of bad people have tricked some of our users into disclosing their account information. We’ve emailed everyone affected, and reset all compromised passwords. If you haven’t received an email from us, you don’t need to worry. No-one has gained access to the Mojang mainframe. Even if they did, we store your passwords in a super encrypted format. Honestly, you don’t need to panic,” the post says.

The post goes on to explain that the accounts were compromised by a “phishing” scam, where scammers pretended to be Mojang and tricked people into entering their details on fake websites.

“You should never, ever, enter your Mojang account details on websites that aren’t owned by us. It’s good practice to use different passwords for each of your internet logins too. That way, if someone does get hold of one password, they won’t get access to your other stuff,” the post says.

The post also includes a link to reset your password, just to be safe. You can find it here.

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