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Trading Paints Credentials Leaked - CHANGE PASSWORDS (twitter.com)

submitted 1 year ago by BURN to c/[email protected]

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Hadn't seen this posted, but for anyone who uses Trading Paints in conjunction with iRacing you need to go in and change passwords NOW!

There was a leak of 270,000 accounts with emails/passwords in md5 format (easily reversible to plaintext)

If you use the service make sure to reset your passwords asap and if you use the password shared on other services you should make sure to change it as well

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

fucking md5. which one of the devs thought this would be a good idea?

[–] BURN 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Seriously. MD5 is in no way secure. At the very minimum it should have been encrypted with an algo that isn't already broken. Pretty disappointed in the TP devs TBH. That's not an oversight, that's a complete and utter disregard for the safety of their users information

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's crazy is that I think this service was developed after md5 was shown to be widely compromised (2011-2012). Not 100% sure though, I wasn't able to find an exact release date.

[–] BURN 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even so, after it was cracked that should have been the #1 priority to fix. There’s absolutely no way it’s acceptable that they haven’t fixed it 10 years down the line.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Unfortunutly there is no other service like it so they can afford to be lax cause you know. Who else is going to do it? Be interesting if someone does get compromised and given the clear lack of effort in properly securing the personal data if they attempt to seek damages against TP

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@BURN they should at least use bcrypt

[–] BURN 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s my go-to for any password encoding

Hopefully this gets iRacing to open up their oAuth portal to external apps and someone can develop something more secure.

It really shouldn’t be that hard. It’s an account management and CDN software, it honestly can’t be that hard to build a properly hardened version

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@BURN yeah. MD5 for as long as I can remember is compromised.