How Blockchain Technology overcomes Credentials Stuffing Cyberattack in Online Gaming?

 

What is Credential Stuffing?

 

Credential stuffing is the method of using a list of stolen credentials that were already acquired during other security breaches. Using these stolen credentials (users IDs and passwords) hackers access numerous sites with the help of automated software. 

 

What happens next? 

 

Cybercriminals acquire complete control over your accounts and get access to the entire private information (if you’re a common user) or the database (if you’re an organization). 

 

Imagine being the CEO of an organization and losing millions of your customers’ ID, password, phone number, and residential address to an anonymous hacker. And once the hacker gains access, what’s guaranteed is extreme harm to millions of common people. 

 

Worst case scenario, they are sold in the black market, and the commoners end up in threats, suicide, and murder.

How does credential stuffing work?
 

- Data breach: Hackers gain access to your accounts and steal your credentials and other private information. 

 

- More data breach: Using your credentials, they run it on other applications you use, and gain complete access over your entire online world. 

 

- Black market: Criminals share or sell data on Dark Web.

 

Now that we know how it works, we believe we have a potential route to tackle it. 

 

Blockchain technology 

 

As long as we are online, we are prone to such cyber attacks. However, a breakthrough technology in the name of blockchain has been successful of late in combating such cyber-vulnerabilities. 

 

Here’s how blockchain can prevent credential stuffing from happening in the gaming industry. 

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