Light's Hope Data Breach

What happened

In June 2018, the World of Warcraft service Light's Hope suffered a data breach which they subsequently self-submitted to HIBP. Over 30K unique users were impacted and their exposed data included email addresses, dates of birth, private messages and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Light's Hope 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 Light's Hope — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Exposed identity data raises identity-theft risk — consider credit monitoring or a credit freeze.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.