Thus, even if a game is free to play, the stolen credentials may be valuable if the cybercriminal can use them to gain access to your personal email or PayPal account. As recently reported by Dark Reading, three out of five people use a singular password for various services. People tend to use one identical password for many different accounts. You might be thinking that a hacker stealing credentials to a League of Legends account is not the same as stealing the login and password to your personal email, correct? Think again. The i nfographic below shows the popularity of League of Legends, with its number of active users falling between XBox Live subscribers and World of Warcraft players.ĭon’t play League of Legends? Your credentials are still at risk. It is estimated that up to 5% of the total population of Taiwan played the game during peak times. Its relatively new free-to-play model at the time made it especially successful in Asia. The game was released in 2009 by Riot games. And, with more than one hundred million gamers playing League of Legends every day, they are an attractive target for phishing scammers. It seems the attackers are predominantly targeting western Europe, with most of the attacks occurring in France, followed by Germany and Spain. Late this past summer, we began seeing a new web phishing scam targeting League of Legends gamers. If it’s free to play, consider the potential cost.
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