Account password used for a blackmail scam email

[Amorais]

Hi,

A word of warning, one of my passwords for this game was used in a blackmail scam email similar to one in this format https://www.getsafeonline.org/protecting-yourself/blackmail-emails/

I've since changed the password but just maybe worthwhile checking for any breaches.

Cheers

[Ilindith]

Use this website, it's very handy.

Have I been pwned? (haveibeenpwned.com)

Also :
Dungeons & Dragons Online

In April 2013, the interactive video game Dungeons & Dragons Online suffered a data breach that exposed almost 1.6M players' accounts. The data was being actively traded on underground forums and included email addresses, birth dates and password hashes.

Breach date: 2 April 2013
Date added to HIBP: 12 March 2016
Compromised accounts: 1,580,933
Compromised data: Dates of birth, Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Usernames, Website activity

Also, also :
If you reuse the same password on multiple websites it could be that the password came from another breach somewhere else too.
They could have figured out you use the email here as well as whatever breached website the password came out of.
Then they throw you an email and hope you've been using the password everywhere and if you do you read the mail and freak out because it's the password you actually use.
But it did not necessarily came from DDO itself.

Personally got one a while ago and that strategy failed on me since I use a different password for everything. Still got me curious how they got the password though. Found out through that website I linked that Adobe had a breach a while ago and that the password came from that. It was a throwaway account though so no issue.

Either way, better safe than sorry and change passwords. Here and everywhere else you use it.

[CalibantheSecond]

Hi,

A word of warning, one of my passwords for this game was used in a blackmail scam email similar to one in this format https://www.getsafeonline.org/protecting-yourself/blackmail-emails/

I've since changed the password but just maybe worthwhile checking for any breaches.

Cheers

Same thing happened to me recently :(