potentially malicious third-party actor'

Nexus Mods, the popular game modding website, has confirmed that they suffered a security breach in November, where a 'exploited the site using its legacy codebase.This security breach occurred on November 8th, where a "small number of user records" have been accessed. These records include email addresses, password salts and hashes. As a precaution, Nexus Mods has asked its users to log out of their website and log in again to change their password.Nexus Mods has brought forward the release of its "long-planned new user service " to ensure that the site's legacy codebase can no longer be used to access user data. This move will enhance the protection of passwords and other user data. Moving to this service will require a new password, which will make any leaked information for the company's November breach out of date.The following recommendations have been released by Nexus Mods.