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Dota 2 chat forum hit by hack attack
11 August 2016
A hack attack has been reported on the official chat forum for Valve's Dota 2 video game, according to security company.
Leaked Source said email addresses, usernames and passwords of more than 1.9 million individuals were stolen during the attack.
The passwords were weakly secured with additional security measures, the report said, and would be easy to break.
The hack was discovered just the moment Dota 2, the world-wide tournament, The International, got underway in Seattle.
For Dota 2 teams taking part in the tournament, it is more than $20 million (PS15m).
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Leaked Source claimed that the attack, on 10 July, was only now come to light.
The data taken was protected or scrambled using the MD5 hashing system , to which was added a random element - a process known as "salting".
Leaked Source claimed that it was capable of converting more than 80 percent of hashed data back into usable text.
Game Servers
It claimed that more than one million of the 1.9million records in the dump database were for email accounts with Google's Gmail service.
A large proportion of these disposable email addresses were used to sign-up for forums.
Game maker Valve has yet to officially comment on reports of the attack and theft of credentials.
Brendan Caldwell, a reporter at the Rock Paper Shotgun news site encouraged forum members to change their passwords, even if they didn't frequent the site anymore.
He also pointed out that the forums for Dota 2 were separate from Valve's larger Steam gaming service.
He added, "So you have only an issue with your Steam account when both passwords are the same."
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