HLTV Data Breach

What happened

In June 2016, the "home of competitive Counter Strike" website HLTV was hacked and 611k accounts were exposed. The attack led to the exposure of names, usernames, email addresses and bcrypt hashes of passwords.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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