Nexus Mods Data Breach Confirmed, 6 Million Accounts Compromised

  • 19 January 2016
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Early December 2015 Nexus Mods data breach report confirmed

 
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Jan 18, 2016 22:13 GMT  ·  By Catalin Cimpanu  A database of six million Nexus Mods user accounts has been added to the Have I Been Pwned? online service, after the website's operators have discovered the breach last month.
 
Nexus Mods is the biggest gaming mods database on the Internet, with an estimated userbase of ten million users. The site provides modding (customization) utilities for over 230 gaming titles, ranging from simple weapon skins to advanced game mods that transform the original game's entire playing experience.
 
At the start of December, a user on Reddit was advising Nexus Mods users to reset their passwords, after he stumbled upon a database dump belonging to the Nexus Mods website.
 
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