Battlefield Heroes data breach: 530K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2014-01-23
In June 2011 as part of a final breached data dump, the hacker collective "LulzSec" obtained and released over half a million usernames and passwords from the game Battlefield Heroes. The passwords were stored as MD5 hashes with no salt and many were easily converted back to their plain text versions. Exposed data: passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Jun 26, 2011; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jan 23, 2014.
What to do
- If you had a Battlefield Heroes account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
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