Counter-Strike GO, although it is not the most popular shooter in the world, has an important community of users behind it, and it is that this video game moves huge amounts of money, and it does not do so only in the sale of products or championships of professional gamers, rather, the community itself contributes with the exchange of related digital products. But the issue that catches our attention today is the security of your accounts, and is that supposedly a hacker has taken over 1,5 million Counter-Strike GO accounts, putting the ESEA platform at risk and users, let's see what the topic is about.
The ESEA (eSports Entertainment Association) has explained in a statement that it has been suffering a major cyber attack that has affected more than one and a half million users of the page. The data of the users of Counter-Strike GO has been leaked in the networks due to the refusal of the company to give in to the blackmail of the hacker in question, who requested the payment of 100.000 in exchange for the data not being filtered. Said and done, the company did not agree to satisfy the cybercriminal and the data has been compromised.
Among the data we can find specific names and surnames of Counter-Strike GO users, as well as the connections to the service, the date of birth, the mobile phones and the email accounts they use to log in to it. On the other hand, the ESEA announces that Credit cards and passwords have not been affected by the intrusion, leaving them to breathe for a while.
How could it be otherwise, the ESEA has recommended that users change their passwords and has taken advantage of the statement to apologize for not being up to the task in terms of security measures.