{"id":95570,"date":"2019-06-11T20:22:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T03:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/?p=95570"},"modified":"2025-08-12T20:49:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T03:49:41","slug":"emuparadise-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/privacy-identity-protection\/emuparadise-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"1.1M Emuparadise Accounts Exposed in Data Breach"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re an avid gamer or know someone who is, you might be familiar with the retro gaming site Emuparadise. This website boasts a large community, a vast collection of gaming music, game-related videos, game guides, magazines, comics, video game translations, and more. Unfortunately, news just broke that Emuparadise recently suffered a data breach<\/a> in April 2018, exposing the data of about 1.1 million of their forum members.<\/p>\n

The operators of the hacked-database search engine, DeHashed, shared this compromised data with the data breach reference site Have I Been Pwned. According to the site\u2019s owner Troy Hunt, the breach impacted 1,131,229 accounts and involved stolen email addresses, IP addresses, usernames, and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. Password salting is a process of securing passwords by inputting unique, random data to users\u2019 passwords. However, the MD5 algorithm is no longer considered sufficient for protecting passwords, creating cause for cybersecurity concern.<\/p>\n

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Tips to Safeguard Your Security<\/h2>\n

Emuparadise forced a credential reset after the breach occurred in April 2018. It\u2019s important that users of Emuparadise games take steps to help protect their private information. If you know someone who\u2019s an avid gamer, pass along the following tips to help safeguard their security:<\/p>\n