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The Mortal Online data breach, explained

Mortal Online (mortalonline.com) was breached on June 17, 2018, exposing 607 thousand accounts, passwords included. Here is exactly what leaked, what it means, and the order to fix things in.

606,637 accounts · 5 data classes · verified record

The numbers

What the record shows

606,637accounts in the breach
June 17, 2018date of the breach
August 31, 2018publicly indexed
~2 monthsbetween breach and public disclosure, while the data circulated and nobody knew to reset anything

What leaked

5 kinds of data were exposed

Email addresses

The universal account key. Exposed addresses get targeted with credential-stuffing and phishing that name the breached site to look legitimate.

Names

Real names turn generic spam into convincing, personally addressed phishing.

Passwords

The one that matters most. Even hashed passwords get cracked at scale, and every account where this password was reused is now reachable.

Physical addresses

Where you live. Combined with a name it supports identity fraud and very convincing postal or doorstep scams.

Usernames

Ties this account to your other accounts that share the handle, which is how one breach becomes a map of your online life.

In this order

What to do now

  1. Reset the Mortal Online password first

    Use the official forgot-password flow on mortalonline.com directly, never a link from an email about the breach; breach news is prime phishing bait.

  2. Kill the reuse, which is the real damage

    Every account sharing the exposed password is now one automated attempt from gone. This is the tedious part, and it is the part Repass automates: it finds the accounts and runs each site's official reset flow for you.

  3. Scan your email for the rest of your exposure

    Run the free breach scan on the address you use most. Mortal Online is one breach; the median active email address appears in several, and what to fix first depends on the full picture.

  4. Turn on two-factor authentication

    A leaked password with a second factor in front of it is a locked door with a stolen key that no longer fits. Prefer an authenticator app over texted codes where the service offers the choice.

Questions

Mortal Online breach FAQ

Was my Mortal Online account affected by the breach?

The record covers 606,637 accounts. The quick way to check is a breach scan against your own email address, which searches this breach and hundreds of others at once. Repass runs one free on its homepage.

What should I change first after the Mortal Online breach?

The Mortal Online password itself, immediately. Then every other account where you used the same or a similar password, because that reuse is what attackers actually exploit.

Is changing my Mortal Online password enough?

Only if that password lived nowhere else. Credential-stuffing takes leaked email-and-password pairs and tries them on banks, mailboxes and stores at machine speed, so the reused copies matter more than the original. A reused password is a breach of every account that shares it.

Where does this breach data come from?

From the public index maintained by Have I Been Pwned, which verifies breaches before listing them. This page renders the structured record: dates, account count and exposed data classes.

How do I find out what else has leaked about me?

Run a breach scan on your email address. It returns every verified breach that lists the address, which is the honest starting point for deciding what to reset first. Repass then resets the passwords for you, one official flow at a time, and seals each new one in an encrypted vault.

Source: the verified Mortal Online record at Have I Been Pwned. Checked against the index of 2026-08-20.

After the breach

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