Was I in the Battlefield Heroes breach?
Battlefield Heroes is an online video game. Its breach happened in June 2011 and exposed 530,270 accounts. It included passwords and usernames. If you had an account there by June 2011, check your address below to see whether it is one of them.
Breach record last updated . Steps read from the government pages at the foot of this page.
What happened?
In June 2011, a hacker group released the usernames and passwords of Battlefield Heroes players in what it called its last data dump. The passwords were MD5 hashes without any salt. Many were easily turned back into plain text.
- Organisation
- Battlefield Heroes, an online video game (battlefieldheroes.com)
- When it happened
- June 2011
- Added to monitored breach databases
- 23 January 2014
- Accounts in the data
- 530,270
- What was exposed
- passwords and usernames
What was exposed, and what does it mean for me?
- Your passwordpasswords
The password for this account was in the data, either as written or in a stored form that can often be reversed when the password is short or common. Anyone with the list can try it on your email, bank and shopping accounts.
- Other detailsusernames
On their own these carry less risk, but they make a scam message sound more personal.
What should I do now?
In this order, for what this breach exposed.
1. Change the password, and every reuse of it
- Change your Battlefield Heroes password if the account still exists. Then change the same password on every other account where you used it, starting with your email.
- Use a different password for each account. A password manager makes that practical: it creates long passwords and remembers them for you.
- Turn on a second sign-in step, such as a code from an app or a security key, for your email, bank and social accounts. Your email comes first, because every password reset goes to it.
Is my address in it?
Enter your email address. We check that one address against monitored breach databases and show which breaches list it and what each exposed.
No account needed. We keep the address you check, when, and how many breach records it was found in, to prevent abuse, until you ask us to delete it. Privacy
Where does this come from?
- The breach record in monitored breach databases: dates, account count and what was exposed. What happened is in our own words.Read 14 October 2026
- CISA: Use strong passwordsRead 14 October 2026
- Get Cyber Safe (Government of Canada): Password managersRead 14 October 2026
- CISA: More than a password (multi-factor authentication)Read 14 October 2026
- Get Cyber Safe (Government of Canada): Multi-factor authenticationRead 14 October 2026