A group of hackers, by being able to find and exploit a security breach very efficiently, has managed to expose nothing less than data from 2,5 million players both Xbox and PlayStation. Before continuing, let me tell you that it was not these platforms that have received the attack, but two important forums used by players who suffered the attack in mid-September 2015.
As a detail, tell you that the gaming forums on which the attack was carried out were the popular ones psp iso y Xbox360, the same channels that are often used to exchange pirated copies of video games. Among the stolen data, it should be noted that each player managed to steal not only their access credentials, such as name and password, but also much more sensitive data such as email addresses, frequently used connection IP addresses or all Personal information.
The access data of 2,5 million PlayStation and Xbox users come to light.
Apparently and according to what Microsoft and Sony have already announced, neither of these two forums is official or has any relationship with both companies. On the other hand, at the moment and despite the fact that the data has been published, no hacker group has been related to the attack or if the forums, after almost two years, were or are aware of the security breach they suffer and that has allowed all this information to be published.
If you are a user of either of these two forums, tell you that HaveIBeenPwned It already has the complete database, which can help you know for sure whether or not you have been a victim of data theft in this attack. As unfortunately it is already usual, just recommend you, in case you may or may not be a victim of any attack, that change your password in all kinds of services in which you can be registered with the same credentials.
Further information: telegraph