Heroes of Newerth data breach (2012)

Imported from Have I Been Pwned — pending editorial review and translation to French. The summary below is machine-extracted; consult the source for details.

In 2012-12-17, Heroes of Newerth was affected by a data breach. Approximately 8,089,103 accounts were exposed. 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.

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Data breachResolvedJuly 4, 2012

War Inc. data breach (2012)

In mid-2012, the real-time strategy game War Inc. suffered a data breach. The attack resulted in the exposure of over 1 million accounts including usernames, email addresses and salted MD5 hashes of passwords.

Victim: War Inc.
Records: 1.0M

Data breachResolvedJuly 1, 2012

Dropbox data breach (2012)

A reused employee password — harvested from the 2012 LinkedIn breach — let an attacker steal a database of about 68 million Dropbox user credentials, which surfaced for sale on the dark web four years later.

Victim: Dropbox
Records: 68.6M

Data breachResolvedJune 5, 2012

LinkedIn password breach

A 2012 intrusion into LinkedIn exposed user passwords stored as unsalted SHA-1 hashes. Initially reported as 6.5 million credentials, the full scope of 117 million accounts only emerged in 2016 when the data surfaced for sale on the dark web.

Victim: LinkedIn
Loss: $1.3M
Records: 117.0M

Data breachResolvedMarch 22, 2012

Last.fm data breach (2012)

The music platform Last.fm was hacked in March 2012, exposing more than 43 million accounts with usernames, email addresses and unsalted MD5 password hashes; over 96% of passwords were cracked within hours once the data surfaced in 2016.

Victim: Last.fm
Records: 37.2M

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War Inc. data breach (2012)

Dropbox data breach (2012)

LinkedIn password breach

Last.fm data breach (2012)