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Breach occurred 2024-10-16Verifiedearth2.io
What happened
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.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Earth 2 data breach occurred on October 16, 2024. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on November 7, 2024.
420,961 accounts were affected by the Earth 2 data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Earth 2 breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Earth 2 breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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