PlayStation and Xbox gamers are at high risk of having had their private information hacked and stolen following a data breach involving 2.5 million accounts.

Hackers reportedly stole information from two popular gaming forums back in 2015, and managed to take details like email address, passwords and IP addresses. Those forums were called Xbox360 ISO and PSP ISO which led gamers to share and download free and pirated copies of games.

These communities are prime targets for hackers, with many younger hackers beginning to play with internet security because of an interest in competetive gaming these days. The forums are unofficial and are not associated with the likes of Sony and Microsoft.

PlayStation and Xbox have suffered cyber attacks in the past too, but the recent incident is by far the most dangerous of all and it has got gamers thinking. Back in 2014, hackers reportedly leaked details of 13,000 playstation, xbox and amazon users.

Security experts nowadays are warning players to be extra vigilant while entering their personal details into such websites or forums and anyone who thinks their account is affected should change their password first as soon as possible.

Vice president of security at NuData, Robert Capps said this data is likely to be sold on the dark web and used for future cyber crime taking place. He told users to be alert to any phishing scams that may appear in email as a result of this hack, changing passwords on any site where same password or username are used.

It is still not clear as to who was behind these attacks or if the sites knew about the breaches when they occured two years ago. Breach alert website HaveIBeenPwned reportedly reveals around 1.3 million account details have been hacked from PSP ISO forum and around 1.2 million from the Xbox360 ISO forum.

The PlayStation and Xbox news is followed by a string of high profile data breaches that have occurred in billions of people's account and their information are being leaked online. Some of the most notable recent incidents include the Adult Friend Finder networks, Three Mobile and Yahoo breaches.

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