Popular Paint and livery design software for iRacing Trading Paints has had a data leak with 270k of users information.
Reports have been raised that 270k users and passwords have been exposed in a data leak related to Trading Paints that is used for iRacing. Musantro has highlighted some important information via twitter.
Apparently yesterday somenone leaked 270k users with MD5 hashed passwords from @tradingpaints. I strongly recommend to renew the password and if you were sharing the password in another website, change it (and this time make it different) #iracing
— Musantro (@Musantro) August 28, 2023
Musantro “In other discord servers they are recommending to DO NOT update TP, and what’s better, to uninstall TP while we get official update from Trading Paints and they guys can check the reach of the security breach”.
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About Trading Paints
The custom car painting platform for iRacing.
Trading Paints adds custom car liveries to iRacing. Design your own cars or race with pre-made paint schemes shared from the community of painters.
Drive officially licensed car replicas engineered from the ground up in cooperation with real-world race teams, applying accurate mechanical and dynamic models.
Go head to head with real drivers all over the world thanks to our skill-based matchmaking and license progression system ensuring competitive racing at all levels.
Race on your own or with a team featuring driver swaps in addition to crew chief and spotter positions!
Whether you want to experience a NASCAR Cup car, a World of Outlaws Sprint car, an open-wheel IndyCar, an Australian Supercar, an IMSA Prototype or Touring Car, or the ultimate: an FIA Grand Prix car, iRacing’s online racing simulations offer them all.
All you need is a computer equipped with one or more USB ports, and a digital wheel/pedal, or gamepad backed by a high-speed Internet connection.
iRacing does the work for you by organizing and managing more than 80 official racing series, or you can choose to race in more than 400 private leagues or launch your own hosted events.