The network data flowed about 6 million users gaming site Nexus Mods – securitylab

Presumably, the leak occurred as a result of compromised accounts of three authors of different mods.

 Confirmed the rumors about the leak user database Nexus Mods – site containing the game fashion for over 230 games. Community resource has about 10 million users. As a result of the incident have been compromised accounts 5,915,013 users of the portal.
 

 For the first time information about a possible leak appeared in December last year. Then one of the members of the board called for all visitors Reddit Nexus Mods to change the passwords. As it turned out, the web was found to dump the database Nexus Mods. After careful examination of the administration of the resource base has sent a notice to all users with a request to change the passwords.
 

 According to one of the administrators of the site known as Dark0ne, database dump contains information about user accounts registered not later than 22 July 2013. As reported, the financial information of users is not compromised. The database contains the user names, email addresses, password hashes and salts.
 

 Presumably, the leak occurred as a result of compromised accounts of three authors of different mods that have established a fairly simple passwords. Under the guise of legitimate files, unknown to upload Nexus Mods Malicious software is later used to steal information.