Aimware Data Breach

Its seven reported classes are emails, forum posts, IP addresses, salted MD5 password hashes, private messages, usernames, and website activity. Payment and government-ID data are not among those classes.

The local record measure is 246,850, a difference of 58,620 from the external unique-account measure. Neither figure means unique people, active users, posts or messages, or rows containing every field together. A salted MD5 hash is not plaintext, and representation and prevalence require authentication.

A row establishes only actual fields in the dataset. It does not establish identity, an Aimware account or game or cheat use, authorship or content of a forum post or private message, IP, username, or password ownership, the meaning of website activity, field co-occurrence, payment or ID data, account takeover, or misuse.

Gaming or forum association, private messages, IPs, usernames, and credentials require the strictest private handling. If a password is authenticated and was reused, it should be replaced. If actual harassment or threats occur, evidence should be preserved and trusted support appropriate to the circumstances should be used.