HeatGames data breach: 647K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2025-01-28
In June 2021, the (now defunct) gaming website HeatGames suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed almost 650k unique email addresses along with IP addresses, country and salted MD5 password hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, geographic locations, ip addresses, passwords. The breach dates from Jun 12, 2021; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jan 28, 2025.
What to do
- If you had a HeatGames 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.
Sources
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