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high severity August 01, 2013 · 1 min read

Lord of the Rings Online Data Breach (2013)

If you are a customer of Lord of the Rings Online, here’s what’s now in circulation.

In August 2013, the interactive video game Lord of the Rings Online suffered a data breach that exposed over 1.1M players' accounts. The data was being actively traded on underground forums and included email addresses, birth dates and password hashes.

Lord of the Rings Online Data Breach (2013)

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 Lord of the Rings Online customer?
Lord of the Rings Online is one listing. Your email is probably in others.
1.1M 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.

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Report details & sourcing

Severity High contact details only, none of them permanent
Disclosed August 01, 2013
Last reviewed July 22, 2026
Affected 1.1M
Data exposed Dates of birthEmail addressesIP addressesPasswordsUsernamesWebsite activity
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Sources: Have I Been Pwned
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