HeatGames

What Happened

In June 2021, the (now defunct) gaming website HeatGames suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed almost 650k unique email addresses along with IP addresses, country and salted MD5 password hashes.

Compromised Data

Email addresses
Geographic locations
IP addresses
Passwords

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    647.9 thousand

  • Breach Occurred:

    June 2021

  • Added to HIBP:

    28 Jan 2025

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