Minecraft fan site Lifeboat hacked: 7M accounts exposed

Your security is always at risk online, and now it’s fans of the game Minecraft: Pocket Edition that should start worrying.

Hackers targeted the community website Lifeboat for Minecraft: Pocket Edition in January and extracted sensitive information for more than 7 million accounts, according to online security expert Troy Hunt (via Vice). Minecraft is the megapopular block-building game from Microsoft, but Lifeboat is an independent site that offers players a way to gather together online using multiplayer servers. This does not affect the desktop version of Minecraft. Stolen data often ends up on the Dark Web — a portion of the Internet that is hidden and anonymous — where hackers and criminals sell illicit goods and information. Before world governments came together to shut it down in 2013, the Silk Road website operated on the Dark Web and generated more than $30 million in revenue.