HeatGames data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the June 2021 breach of HeatGames. For every breach, see Breaches.
The HeatGames data breach exposed 647,896 accounts from heatgames.me in June 2021. The data taken includes passwords, email addresses, geographic locations and IP addresses.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 28 Jan 2025, 4 years later. It is the 458th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
HeatGames’s breach included 4 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:
| Data | What it’s used for |
|---|---|
| Passwords | Criminals try leaked passwords on email, banking and shopping sites, because people reuse them. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| Geographic locations | Roughly where you live. |
| IP addresses | Roughly where you were when you used the service. |
What to do
- Check whether you’re in it.Search your email address on Have I Been Pwned. It tells you which breaches it appears in, HeatGames among them, without showing the data.
- Change your HeatGames password.If the account still exists, sign in at HeatGames (heatgames.me) and change it.
- Change it anywhere you used the same one.Start with your email, then banking and shopping. Leaked passwords are tried on other sites automatically, within days.
- Use a password manager and two-step sign-in.A different password for every site means one breach can’t open the rest. Two-step sign-in stops a leaked password working on its own.
- Distrust messages that mention HeatGames.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
Timeline
- : the breach, as best it can be dated.
- : Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, 4 years later.
Breaches often stay hidden for a long time. Until it came out, people in it had no reason to change anything.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- ParkMobile, March 2021, 21 million accounts
- Daily Quiz, January 2021, 8 million accounts
- DatPiff, August 2021, 7.5 million accounts
- Open Subtitles, August 2021, 6.8 million accounts
- Descomplica, March 2021, 4.8 million accounts
- Gemplex, February 2021, 4.6 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “HeatGames”, Have I Been Pwned, added 28 Jan 2025. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- heatgames.me, HeatGames’s website