UFC Fight Pass Subscribers’ Personal Information Potentially Released By Hackers

A recent online data breach initiated by hackers over Christmas has spilled over into the UFC.

Notorious hacker group “Anonymous,” who was responsible for the takeover the UFC website last year, has released a list of 13,000 of usernames and passwords along with credit card numbers from a number of potentially compromised retail sites including UFC.tv, the home of the UFC’s digital subscription service Fight Pass.

Anonymous released two tweets detailing the release of the stolen information on document site Ghostbin and the sites involved (photos courtesy of MMA Mania):

The Internet has seen a ton of online hacker activity over the holiday season, with another prominent hacker group called “Lizard Squad” shutting down the Xbox Live and PSN video gaming networks over Christmas. Xbox Live was back online yesterday and PSN just got fixed today.

It’s unclear if this hack was related to Anonymous’ reported data breach which included accounts and passwords from a massive list of sites that includes online retail giant Amazon among several other subscription, retail, gaming, and porn sites.

Further details of the hack were posted by The Daily Dot:

The stolen personal information was released in a massive text file posted the document sharing site Ghostbin. The compromised sites run the gamut from pornography to gaming to online shopping.

Some of the most significant leaks came from online video gaming networks like Xbox Live, the Sony PlayStation Network, and Twitch.tv. There was information from accounts at Walmart, Amazon, and Hulu Plus, as well as keys to computer games like The Sims 3 and Dragon Age: Origins, and a whole lot of porn sites.

Judging from the document, the following sites were compromised or, at the very least, had some of their user data stolen-possibly through malware installed onto users’ personal devices or other nefarious methods.

The UFC has not yet released a statement on the reported breach, and the exact specifics of how it affects Fight Pass subscribers is unknown right now. Stay tuned to LowKick MMA for any and all developments on the breach as they arise.