Forget creepers: 'Heartbleed' security flaw is the greatest threat to millions of Minecraft players

The millions of people who play Minecraft should change their passwords as soon as possible.

Minecraft developer Mojang’s web servers were among those exposed by Heartbleed, a loophole in the Open SSL security platform that a majority of websites use to secure information transferring. (For more information, see VentureBeat’s coverage.) The company behind the blockbuster open-world block-building game for home consoles and mobile devices took down its servers as soon as it learned of the flaw, updating to a patched version and obtaining a new security certificate.