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7 million Minecraft Pocket Edition players put at risk after Lifeboat hack - expert comment
April 2016 by
Over seven million members of the independent Minecraft “Lifeboat” community have had their security and privacy put at risk after hackers breached servers and stole usernames, email addresses and MD5-hashed passwords.
If you are planning on covering this news, please see below for a comment from Ken Spinner, VP of global field engineering at Varonis. Feel free to use it in any stories you may be writing.
“Children need to be taught the value of information and the importance of keeping it safe. Personal information that they share in-person or online is like putting a coin in someone else’s piggy bank – be careful what you share, and with whom, because some people and businesses guard their piggy banks better than others. Some basic guidelines that children (and their parents) should follow:
• Don’t use the same password in more than one place
• Don’t make passwords easy to guess
• Don’t share them with your friends
• Changing passwords regularly – monthly
• If you have a choice, share information with businesses and web sites that take security seriously – support for multi-factor authentication is a good start."
