The video will start in 8 Cancel

Sign up to FREE email alerts from Daily Star - Gaming Subscribe Thank you for subscribing See our privacy notice Invalid Email

(Image: Daily Star)

Gamers beware - this week there was a massive data breach, and it could have leaked your information.

Earlier this week, Web security expert Troy Hunt reported a massive email and password dump - made up of millions of unknown security credentials - that appeared on the web in early 2019.

The data leak, which contains user data from multiple platforms, consists of a database made up of over 773,000,000 emails and passwords.

Data includes account credentials from Amazon, PayPal, Steam, PSN, Xbox Live, and many, many more besides.

So what can you do if you're curious your data has been taken?

First up, you're going to want to check your email that you use to log into Steam, PSN, Xbox Live or Nintendo's online services with.

Simply head over to haveibeenpwned.com and enter your email into the site.

The site is trusted globally by security professionals and cross-checks all known leaked databases with the email you enter.

If the search returns a positive result, don't panic - just head to the email account in question and change your password.

As an added security measure, we recommend adding 2-step verification to your accounts on Xbox One and PS4.

This basically means that to sign into new consoles or new pages online, you'll need to enter a code that's sent to your phone, as well as your standard log-in details. It makes your account so much harder to breach.

Here's how to enable 2-Step Verification on PlayStation and Xbox.