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Scuf Gaming data breach

From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the June 2015 breach of Scuf Gaming. For every breach, see Breaches.

The Scuf Gaming data breach exposed 128,683 accounts from scufgaming.com in June 2015. The data taken includes passwords, usernames, email addresses, display names and IP addresses.[1]

Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 26 Mar 2026, 11 years later. It is the 564th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.

What was exposed

Scuf Gaming’s breach included 5 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:

DataWhat it’s used for
PasswordsCriminals try leaked passwords on email, banking and shopping sites, because people reuse them.
UsernamesHalf of a login. With a reused password, it opens other accounts.
Email addressesExpect scam emails that name the company to look genuine.
Display namesPersonal details that make scam messages more convincing.
IP addressesRoughly where you were when you used the service.

What to do

  1. Check whether you’re in it.Search your email address on Have I Been Pwned. It tells you which breaches it appears in, Scuf Gaming among them, without showing the data.
  2. Change your Scuf Gaming password.If the account still exists, sign in at Scuf Gaming (scufgaming.com) and change it.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Distrust messages that mention Scuf Gaming.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, 11 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:

  • R2Games, November 2015, 22 million accounts
  • xat, November 2015, 6 million accounts
  • Aternos, December 2015, 1.4 million accounts
  • OVH, May 2015, 452,899 accounts
  • Plex, July 2015, 327,314 accounts
  • Dailymotion, October 2016, 85 million accounts

See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.

References

  1. ^ Troy Hunt. “Scuf Gaming”, Have I Been Pwned, added 26 Mar 2026. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.