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Heroes of Newerth

Disclosed Jan 24, 201610 years ago8,089,103 accountsUnverified

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.

What is known

People affected8,089,103 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
DisclosedJan 24, 2016
HappenedDec 17, 2012
AttackHacking
Data exposedEmails, Passwords
SectorTech
StatusUnverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization
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Sources

Source
Have I Been Pwned: Heroes of Newerthhaveibeenpwned.com · Aggregator

Notices filed

WhereFiledPeople
Have I Been Pwnedaccounts in the dataJan 24, 20168,089,103
History of this record
  • 2026-09-25 · added · backfill source

First seen 2026-09-25 (Have I Been Pwned). Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.

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