{"id":125921,"date":"2022-07-22T10:32:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T08:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=125921"},"modified":"2022-07-22T10:32:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T08:32:05","slug":"neopets-hack-leaks-60-million-user-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/125921-neopets-hack-leaks-60-million-user-accounts","title":{"rendered":"Neopets Hack leaks 60 million user accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neopets is a virtual pet website released in the early 2000s and most recently was acquired by Net Dragon in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The online game boasts over 69 million accounts on its servers, and this leak of information may have compromised the email addresses and passwords of some.<\/p>\n<p>Neopets clarified the announcement and hack on Twitter, indicating they had launched an investigation into the matter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Neopets recently became aware that customer data may have been stolen. We immediately launched an investigation assisted by a leading forensics firm. We are also engaging law enforcement and enhancing the protections for our systems and our user data. (1\/3)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 neopets (@Neopets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Neopets\/status\/1549948273250766848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If you have a Neopets account, changing your password would be a good idea.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/125919-ubisoft-delays-avatar-frontiers-of-pandora\">Ubisoft delays Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hack of the long-standing Neopets may have leaked user information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":125922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[197,26382],"class_list":["post-125921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-hack","tag-neopets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}