Now I know none of you would partake in piracy forums so you can snag yourself free PlayStation and Xbox games, but in case you know somebody who frequents such sites, you might want to tell them to reset their password. Matthew Hughes writes from The Next Web:

 If you ever held an account on Xbox360ISO.com or PSPISO.com, now’s the time to reset your password. Both sites were hacked by an unknown attacker in late 2015, with the details of those affected splashed on the Internet late this weekend.

The details encompass an incredible 2.5 million users, and include email addresses, IP addresses, usernames and passwords. It seems that the operator of these sites did nothing to protect the latter, as all passwords were ‘protected’ using the MD5 hashing system, which is trivially easy to overcome. 

As someone who is stringently against pirating content, it’s a bit of karma really so I don’t feel all too bad by those affected by this – but identify theft is also no laughing matter which hacks like this can lead to.