Nexus Mods
Nexus Mods, a gaming site which has, warned users about a “” after a Reddit user was by that a “large number of student users had their credentials breached for nexusmods.com.” A Reddit gamer, who works for a higher education institute, a copy of the email notifying users about the compromised credentials. REN-ISAC, which stands for Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center,: [ Further reading: ] The trusted party is not able to share associated passwords, hashes, or other information because of PII concerns of their attorneys. The ONLY information being made available is the account names.
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It will not be possible to determine if associated passwords meet your local complexity requirements. The trusted party states that “.nexusmods.com does not do any password complexity enforcement other than it is between 3 and 32 characters,” wrote REN-ISAC before adding that the emails and passwords “ are out on the Internet in criminal circles.” Although other gamers took to Reddit to confirm receiving an email from Ohio State University about the Nexus breach, other users from said they had also received breach notifications. After the Nexus Mod breach PSA, one Reddit user his PSN account was compromised, with the attacker changing the password as it was the same password used on Nexus. Another Redditor an email from EA/Origin asking if a password reset had been requested; yet another someone had attempted to access his Humble Bundle and Blizzard accounts. Nexus founder Robin Scott, aka DarkOne, for users to change their passwords in the first announcement about the breach. Although he said all passwords stored the database were “hashed and salted,” he provided no additional details. 
Hashed and salted passwords are equally secure and some methods are easier to crack.