Minecraft Passwords Posted Publicly

We urge everyone in the Minecraft community to change their Minecraft.net passwords ASAP. Please read below for tips on how to create a better password before doing so.
It recently came to our attention that a list of approximately 1,000 Minecraft account names and passwords were made freely available on the internet. We believe this list consists of information collected by a group of malicious users from a well known "griefing team". How the information in this list was obtained is not sure, but we suspect they collected them through the use of hacked clients that pretend to only give you extra features like flying or seeing through blocks but actually send your account information to the creators as well.

The first thing we did when we acquired this information was to inform Mojang of this crisis, however, we feel we can do a bit more for the community while we wait for them to handle the situation properly as we've learned that there's a high possibility that the griefing team is aware that their list has been made public. As such, we are going to be pre-emptively banning compromised accounts with an informative reason. Unfortunately, MCBans did not have a means of merely informing compromised accounts that their username and password have been discovered, so banning them with a brief message telling them so is the only option.

If there is ONE thing you read in this announcement, it should be this: we urge everyone to go and change their passwords NOW, keeping in mind the following tips on creating better passwords:

    * Passwords should not contain words found in the dictionary
    * Passwords should contain a mixture of upper and lowercase characters.
    * Passwords should contain a mixture of letters and numbers.
    * Passwords should contain punctuation characters and symbols such as: % & + - = #.
    * Choose a password you can remember but don't make it too easy.
    * Passwords should be at LEAST 8 characters in length, but 14 or more is preferable.

Please help us by sharing this information with everyone you know and getting them to change their Minecraft.net passwords.

To see if you’re one of the people on the list, use this site: http://dinnerbone.com/minecraft.php

Long story short, don’t download silly hacks from the internet - particularly from an untrusted source.

In the meantime, specialk is investigating why our SMP server has crashed and won’t reboot.

Yay im safe, ty for this tho very helpful :smiley:

Where can I find the list to make sure that I am not on It?

http://dinnerbone.com/minecraft.php

Type in your name and check the message it outputs

Great! Thanks Andy!

I’m safe! Thank you Andy. I would not have known about this without you! I have ahem experimented with such programs, so I was a tad worried. I did block my internet connection while testing them though.

I’m saafe! :smiley:

Lol Jet, glad your all safe :slight_smile:

To see if you're one of the people on the list, use this site: http://dinnerbone.com/minecraft.php
:P

Oh…It’s in the main post…derp. :stuck_out_tongue:

Im safe but i was expecting to be cos i havn’t downloaded anything minecraft related except the launcher

thank you for this! im safe :smiley:

U know what u should do in future , put ur internet comdom on that way u dont catch anything :wink: :stuck_out_tongue:

clients with fly mods… -w-. You know what.
Im going to get all the files from my minecraft folder and share them here so that you guys will be able to fly. il probaly download the client from the sie and put zombes on it then re upload it here? or is that copyrighted so i cant do it? fyi i have a modded version of zombes that i cusotmly did

You have lost me :S

Thank god I’m safe ;D