Millions of gaming passwords, email addresses released online

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Winda Benedetti 7/23/2012

Hacking alert service PwnedList has discovered that more than 8 million email addresses and encrypted passwords from a gaming website have been published online, according to a report in Forbes.

The passwords, email address and user names were taken from free-to-play online gaming site Gamigo — publisher of games such as "Dungeon Empires" and "Cultures Online." And although the site is based in Germany, according PwnedList, 3 million American accounts were among the stolen data.

"It's the largest leak I’ve ever actually seen," PwnedList founder Steve Thomas told Forbes.

It's certainly the largest this year — following other significant breaches at LinkedIn, eHarmony and Last.fm.

Forbes reports that the stolen user information was posted to Inside Pro, a password-cracking forum, and remained there until late last week.

Gamigo first reported the hack back in early March with this post to its community members:

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