Is nothing sacred? Minecraft has been hacked. As reported by the BBC (via the International Business Times), players of Minecraft Pocket Edition who used the Lifeboat server service may be in trouble. The site was hacked back in 2015, and a gasp-inducing seven million passwords were stolen. The site has only come clean about the news in recent days, but supposedly no damage has been done by the hacks so far.

Minecraft Pocket Edition Hacked, Lifeboat Passwords Stolen

The Minecraft hack wasn’t of the game itself, thank goodness. Lifeboat is a service for persistent servers and customized multiplayer games for Minecraft Pocket Edition, and this data breach only affects customers who used the service. If you just used Minecraft Pocket Edition without explicitly signing up for Lifeboat, you’re all good. But if you did use Lifeboat, you probably got a message forcing you to change your password for the site in early 2015. That was because the company knew about the hack, although it didn’t make the information public until very recently.

You might laugh and ask what difference it makes if your Minecraft account gets hacked (if you’re not a Minecraft player, that is). But it’s not about malicious griefers summoning Withers to wreck your house. Hackers don’t want to blow up your world in Minecraft. They want to steal your password in the hopes that you used that same password across other services, like bank accounts and credit cards. And with seven million passwords stolen, it’s certain that was the case for many people.

That’s why Lifeboat’s response—demanding that you change your password—is probably, in the long run, inadequate. Thankfully, no harm has been reported because of the hack thus far. But the data was still taken. And even if you changed your Lifeboat password but kept your other passwords the same, your data could be compromised. And that’s why companies need to tell you when you get hacked… not to stop hackers from dropping a bucket of lava on a forest, but to prevent the real crimes that such a huge set of passwords could enable. It’s a big risk.

Here’s your immediate takeaway, though: If you use or used Lifeboat for Minecraft Pocket Edition, change your password not just for Lifeboat, but for anything that ever used the same password or a similar version of it. Trust me, it’s worth the hassle.