Data breach · September 2020

Was I in the Horse Isle breach?

Horse Isle is an online horse game. Its breach happened in September 2020 and exposed 27,786 accounts. It included passwords, email addresses, genders and IP addresses (where you connected from) and 3 other kinds of detail. If you had an account there by September 2020, check your address below to see whether it is one of them.

Breach record last updated . Steps read from the government pages at the foot of this page.

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01

What happened?

Horse Isle, an online horse game, was breached in June 2020 and again that September. Email addresses, names, usernames, genders, IP addresses and purchases were exposed, and passwords were kept in plain text. The site also stored each user's failed login attempts, with the wrong passwords in plain text.

Organisation
Horse Isle, an online horse game (horseisle.com)
When it happened
September 2020
Added to monitored breach databases
2 October 2023
Accounts in the data
27,786
What was exposed
passwords, email addresses, genders, IP addresses (where you connected from), names, purchases and usernames

The breach record cites a public report on hi1.horseisle.com.

02

What was exposed, and what does it mean for me?

  • Your passwordpasswords

    The password for this account was in the data, either as written or in a stored form that can often be reversed when the password is short or common. Anyone with the list can try it on your email, bank and shopping accounts.

  • Your email addressemail addresses

    Expect messages that look like they come from this service or another one you use, written to get you to click a link or sign in on a fake page.

  • Other detailsgenders, IP addresses (where you connected from), names, purchases and usernames

    On their own these carry less risk, but they make a scam message sound more personal.

03

What should I do now?

In this order, for what this breach exposed.

1. Change the password, and every reuse of it

  • Change your Horse Isle password if the account still exists. Then change the same password on every other account where you used it, starting with your email.
  • Use a different password for each account. A password manager makes that practical: it creates long passwords and remembers them for you.
  • Turn on a second sign-in step, such as a code from an app or a security key, for your email, bank and social accounts. Your email comes first, because every password reset goes to it.

2. Expect phishing

  • Be wary of messages that urge you to act fast, ask for personal details, or link to an address that is slightly off.
  • If a message might be genuine, do not use its links or phone numbers. Go to the site by typing its address yourself.
04

Is my address in it?

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Where does this come from?

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