14 DAY TRIAL // Cricket fans who possess accounts on cricfire.com are advised to immediately change their passwords and monitor their inboxes for any malicious messages that may come their way. The warning is a result of a data breach that affected the site recently.
A hacker called Le0n B3lm0nt published a large part of the website’s database on Pastebin, including email addresses, usernames, password hashes and password salts.
Fortunately for the site’s customers, because the administrators salted the passwords, the chances for someone to decrypt them are low.
Nevertheless, as a precaution, passwords should be changed. Also, the email addresses leaked by the hackers represent a gold mine for cybercriminals who rely on spam campaigns to spread their malicious products.
For the time being, CriFire hasn’t displayed any messages to notify their customers on the incident, but hopefully they have taken all the necessary measures to ensure their safety.