The browser game Evony is known for its quirky advertising campaign featuring well-placed breasts. However, the security is apparently not great.
The story about Evony dates back to October 2016, but it has only recently been picked up by the US site Massively.
Evony is a browser game that made waves around 2009 because it advertised with “breasts.” Well-built women lounged in advertising campaigns urging players: “Come play with me, MyLord” or “Save your beloved.”
Those who did so got to see a browser city-building game. Most will recognize the pattern of these games: hundreds of such games circulate online. They rely on players eventually turning to microtransactions to advance their progress, which becomes increasingly tedious over time.
Outside of the advertising campaign, there was no sight of breasts in Evony, as former players credibly assure.
As the site “securityaffairs” reported in October 2016, there was a hack at Evony that affected 33 million accounts.
Hackers reportedly attacked the site in June 2016 and obtained the data of 33,407,472 users. Two months later, another hack occurred: in August 2016, the data of 938,000 users was reportedly stolen.
Securityaffairs learned this from the blog “LeakedSource.” They possess a copy of this data of more than 33 million records. The data includes email addresses, passwords, IP addresses, and other information. It was easy for the hackers to decrypt the data.
Those who enjoy breasts in their games often have silly passwords
The data was then evaluated. Over 700,000 users are said to have used the password “123456”. The usual suspects, „Password“ and „qwerty“, were also popular.
Perhaps it’s due to the controversial campaign that at rank 8 the password “evildick” – the evil penis reigns.
It is not known whether Evony users were informed about this hack. You obviously don’t play the game, but you can warn one of your friends to change his password. Perhaps it’s not too late.
In memory of games that advertise with breasts, we recommend this article:
Scarlet Blade packs its breasts away – Sexy MMORPG is being discontinued
