Alleged Activision hack, 500,000 Call Of Duty players impacted

Over 500,000 Activision accounts may have been hacked in a new data breach that the gaming firm suffered on September 20.

More than 500,000 Activision accounts may have compromised as a result of a data breach suffered by the gaming firm on September 20, reported the eSports site Dexerto.

According to Dexerto, the login for Activision accounts been publicly leaked and threat actors also changed accounts’ details to prevent easy recovery by the legitimate owners. Most of the Activision accounts are also used by players of the popular game Call of Duty titles, including Warzone, Modern Warfare, and Mobile.

“All Call of Duty players should be on notice after a major Activision hack has left millions of accounts in limbo.” reads the post published by Dexerto.

“As of the time of publishing, over 500,000 Activision accounts have reportedly been hacked, with log-ins being leaked publicly. Hackers are then changing the account details, making it so the original owners can’t recover them.”

The data breach was first reported by ‘oRemyy’ on Twitter and later confirmed by other content creators, like TheGamingRevolution and Prototype Warehouse.

TheGamingRevolution account revealed that the threat actors behind the hack are reportedly “generating 1,000 accounts every 10 minutes.”

At the time it is not clear how hackers breached the accounts, the security breach could be the result of a credential stuffing attack.

Players are recommended to change their account passwords as soon as possible.

“You should also unlink your Battlenet, PSN, Xbox, or other accounts associated with your Activision account to protect those as well. If you have saved payment details on hand too, you’ll want to try and remove those too.” concludes Dexerto. “Unfortunately, Activision accounts do not have two-factor authentication on them. You’ll just have to keep an eye on your account for any major changes, and just cross your fingers.”

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.