Security News > 2020 > September > Activision Refutes Claims of 500K-Account Hack

The alleged breach was first flagged by the #oRemyy account on Twitter, and was quickly amplified by others, who claimed that accounts were being taken over and credentials changed, so that the legitimate users couldn't recover them.

"Yeah it's legit guys. Change your Activision account passwords immediately. Apparently over 500,000 accounts have been breached already and it's still ongoing," one user going by "Okami" tweeted.

Regarding the Activision account breach, I just seen solid proof, change your password.

Two-factor authentication is unfortunately not an account security option, making brute-force attacks to crack accounts more possible.

"Stolen personal information is sold on the dark web and used by other cybercriminals to launch automated account takeover attacks on other websites, where the same user might have had a registered account," DeCarlis said via email.

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https://threatpost.com/activision-refutes-claims-account-hack/159433/