Heroes of Newerth Data Breach

What happened

In December 2012, the multiplayer online battle arena game known as Heroes of Newerth was hacked and over 8 million accounts extracted from the system. The compromised data included usernames, email addresses and passwords.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Heroes of Newerth 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 Heroes of Newerth — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.