The video game industry is a black hole for cybersecurity

New data from Akamai, an internet delivery and cloud services company, has exposed that the video game industry remains a growing threat vector for security breaches. Hackers have targeted 12 billion credential stuffing attacks against game websites within a 17-month period. Emuparadise, the retro gaming site, is the latest gaming community to admit having suffered a credential stuffing attack.

So why is gaming such a weak link?

Industries that have significant financial risk, like banking or ecommerce, store passwords in robust hashing algorithms that make them difficult to crack. This deters cybercriminals who look for the easiest and fastest way to breach systems: credential stuffing attacks. Those are attacks where other sites with passwords have been hacked, and those names and passwords can then be attempted.