Battlefy Data Breach

What happened

In January 2016, the esports website Battlefy suffered a data breach that exposed 83k customer records. The impacted data included email addresses, usernames and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Battlefy password immediately, and update it anywhere you reused the same password.
• Enable two-factor authentication on the affected account and on your critical services (email, banking).
• Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing Battlefy — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.