TechCrunch reports that Manhunt revealed the hack in a notice filed with the Washington attorney general. The notice claims the hacker “gained access to a database that stored account credentials for Manhunt users,” and “downloaded the usernames, email addresses, and passwords for a subset of our users” in the breach.Related: Manhunt is trending and straight gamers are clutching their motion controllersIt remains unclear if any of the data in the breach was scrambled or otherwise encoded, and exactly how many users are affected.
Manhunt claims it began alerting users in mid-March to begin password resets to protect account information. That response has also invited new criticism, as the company did not actually inform users of the hack.