high severity December 17, 2012 · 1 min read

Heroes of Newerth Data Breach (2012)

If you are a customer of Heroes of Newerth, here’s what’s now in circulation.

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 the free scan actually returns

Sample resultyou@email.comIllustrative — not a real person

Found on people-search siteswe remove these

These listings are live, public, and legal to remove — and removing them is what we do.

value redacted in this sampleage, relatives, address historySpokeo

value redacted in this samplephone, household, property recordsBeenVerified

value redacted in this sample582 companies checked

Found in breach recordsverifiedreported — unverified

Each record is labeled: confirmed breach data, or an attacker’s claim no one has verified.

verifiedvalue redacted in this samplepassword + phone · 2024telecom breach

unverifiedvalue redacted in this sampleclaimed in ransomware listing · 2026leak-site claim

Leaked data cannot be deleted from the internet — anyone claiming otherwise is lying. Broker listings can be removed. We do the second, and show you exactly what to fix from the first.

Were you a Heroes of Newerth customer?

Heroes of Newerth is one listing. Your email is probably in others.

8.1M accounts were exposed here. Check whether yours is one — and find every other leak tied to the same address, in about 15 seconds. No account, no card.

Report details & sourcing

Severity High contact details only, none of them permanent

Disclosed December 17, 2012

Last reviewed July 22, 2026

Affected 8.1M

Data exposed Email addressesPasswordsUsernames

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Sources: Have I Been Pwned

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Heroes of Newerth Data Breach (2012)

Found on people-search siteswe remove these

Found in breach recordsverifiedreported — unverified

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