Earth 2 — 421K accounts
Severity: Medium · Kind: Data breach
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From the source
In October 2024, 421k unique email addresses from the virtual earth game Earth 2 were derived from embedded Gravatar images. Appearing alongside player usernames, the root cause was related to how Gravatar presents links to avatars as MD5 hashes within consuming services, a feature Earth 2 advised has now been disabled on their platform. This incident did not expose any further personal information, passwords or financial data.
Breach facts
- Accounts affected
- 420,961
- Verified
- Yes
- Sensitive
- No
- Domain
- earth2.io
- Data exposed
- Email addressesUsernames
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