BattleField Heroes

Electronic Arts shut down the free to play shooter Battlefield Heroes after a significant security breach compromised the user database. The incident involved an unauthorized access to the servers where hackers managed to extract sensitive account information. This breach was part of a larger series of attacks targeting gaming platforms during that period, leading to the exposure of millions of player records. The data included account identifiers and authentication details which posed a risk of account takeover for active players at the time.