EVE Online Banned 10,700 Accounts Whose Logins Turned Up on the Dark Web

What the July report says

CCP Games published its Monthly Ban Report for July on August 19, 2026. The headline number in the text is 10,700 accounts banned “proactively” because their login details had appeared on the dark web. The report says those credentials were taken by malware, and banning them first means the stolen logins cannot be used.

The report also renames a category. What used to be called “ISK Selling” is now “RMT Advertising / Selling”, because most bans in that bucket are for advertising sales through links in chat channels rather than for completed ISK deals. Totals by category and the amount of ISK removed are published as charts rather than in the text.

How CCP bans

The June report, published July 21, was the first of the more detailed monthly reports. It listed 3,165 accounts banned for Macro Use and explained why that number looks high: when a player breaks the rules, every account linked to that player is banned, not only the one that was botting. Accounts created by automation are usually suspended before they can log in, and CCP said it will not break bans down by alliance or corporation.

What it means for buyers

Two things in these reports matter if you buy in EVE. First, a ban reaches every linked account, so one risky purchase can cost you your whole stable, not just the character that received the ISK. Second, the 10,700 leaked-credential bans are a reminder that bought or shared logins are a security risk on their own. EVE has an official route from cash to ISK through PLEX; see official ways to buy currency and the EVE Online page before you consider anything else.

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