Major Neopets hack may compromise tens of millions of accounts

There are more than 69,000,000 NeopetsAccounts may have been compromised following Wednesday’s disclosure of a significant data breach. There are several ways to get your account compromised. Neopets representative initially confirmed via Discord that the company is aware of the breach and “actively working on it.” Hours later, a Neopets representative published a statement on the site’s forum and on Twitter addressing the breach.

“Neopets recently became aware that customer data may have been stolen,” it tweeted. “We immediately launched an investigation assisted by a leading forensics firm. We are also engaging law enforcement and enhancing the protections for our systems and our user data.”

Neopets community website JellyNeo reported the breach Wednesday after the reported hacker offered to sell the “complete database and source code,” which includes emails, passwords, and other personal information, as well as live access to the database where a buyer can “modify data, credits or in-game pets,” on a data breach forum. For approximately $100,000, the hacker offered to sell the data at 4 bitcoin. The hacker listed the data for a price of 4 bitcoin, or roughly $100,000. NeopetsTeam confirmed the compromise of email addresses and passwords, and recommended that all players update their passwords. Neopets… and other places. It didn’t, however, mention the scope of the breach.

NeopetsIt does provide a premium subscription that removes advertisements and unlocks some forums as well as certain features. NeoCash can be purchased by players to use in the NC Mall for various purposes. NeopetsItems that can be used on this website. It’s unclear if user credit card information is stored within Neopets’database, or whether it was compromised during the breach. The company has not responded to Polygon’s request for more information.

NeopetsYou probably remember this website from your youth as the place where you could create your own pet. It’s currently owned by JumpStart Games, which acquired the site in 2014. JumpStart Games acquired the site in 2014 and was taken over by NetDragon. JumpStart received criticism in 2021 following the announcement of its acquisition by NetDragon. Neopets Metaverse Collection of NFTs — users were furious. Still, Neopets has an active and dedicated player base, despite some questionable decisions and the site’s slow transition into the future; Neopets Flash support was discontinued in 2020 by Adobe, resulting in the site being permanently broken. Many features were taken offline. The site’s been transitioning into HTML-5 and works a lot better, but now the major flaw seems to be security.

Neopets The hack is making players upset. NeopetsForums, Reddit and Facebook. While some players swear to quit the game altogether, others make fun of their inability to access lost accounts.

Even though the site attracts a lot of people, there is a tendency for the relationships to be adversarial. For example, Adobe Flash was converted from HTML-5 and it has been a major pain. This isn’t the first time NeopetsHacking has also occurred: Tens to millions of accounts were compromised in 2016 alone. This information was likely to be used for hacking into other services using the same passwords. The problem is that Neopets players used the information to steal from each other, too — whether that was Neopoints, the virtual currency, or ultra-rare pets themselves.

Even rare pets have an actual-money worth Neopets Although the black market is the most likely victim of the breach, it’s not the theft of a pet. This week’s data breach is a huge opportunity for hackers. The sheer volume of information made available to hackers makes it incredibly valuable. Password-repeaters are more vulnerable than players who have other sensitive accounts compromised.