Battlefield Heroes data breach
The Battlefield Heroes breach happened on June 26, 2011 and exposed 530,270 accounts. 2 kinds of data were exposed.
Overview
- Site
- battlefieldheroes.com
- Breach date
- June 26, 2011
- Recorded on
- January 23, 2014
- Accounts exposed
- 530,270
- Exposed data
- Passwords, Usernames
- Risk score
- 62 out of 100
Risk based on the exposed data
This breach scores 62 out of 100. The score is driven mostly by Passwords, Usernames.
The risk score is a guide to how dangerous a breach is, judged by the kinds of data exposed. The number of accounts is not included.
Breaches from the same period
- hackforums.net (2011-06-25, 191,540 accounts)
- Civil Online (2011-07-10, 7,830,195 accounts)
- Sony (2011-06-02, 37,103 accounts)
What affected users should do
- Change your Battlefield Heroes password, and also change it on any other service where you used the same password. You can create a new one with the password generator.
- Turn on two-factor authentication for your login.
This site organizes publicly available information about data breaches. Data as of November 7, 2016. Breach dates are as originally listed; when only the month is known, the date is recorded as the 1st.