Crytek in Crisis as Sites Down Due to Hack

Crytek has gone public about the reason it's taken its Crytek.com, Mycryengine.com, Crydev.net and MyCrysis.com sites offline: they've been hacked.

According to the company, "were all subject to a security breach that may have resulted in some users' login data being compromised."

"Although it is uncertain whether the incident led to the copying and decryption of email addresses and passwords", it continued, "it is possible that users with accounts at these websites have had personal data copied. On Friday afternoon we started to contact all affected users via email and informed them of the potential security breach."

The statement, also said, "Next time account holders visit crydev.net, mycryengine.com or mycrysis.com, they will be asked to change their passwords during log in. We would like to reiterate our suggestion to account holders that they change their password for other locations online if it is the same as their login data for the affected Crytek sites.

"Final details of when our sites will be back online will be communicated as soon as possible. We're currently doing everything in our power to ensure our sites and, more importantly, our users, are not affected by such issues in future."

Source: Eurogamer