It appears that Hacking Season is now officially from April to June. The latest target for the Internet Underworld is Epic Games, which issued a statement on its forum declaring that it has been breached, with user data being stolen.
Epic's Tim Sweeney states:
"Our Epic Games web sites and forums were recently hacked. We're working on getting them back up and running, and expect everything to be restored in a few days.
"The hackers likely obtained the email addresses and encrypted passwords of forum users. Plain text passwords weren't revealed, but short or common passwords could be obtained by brute-force attack. Therefore, we're resetting all passwords. If you have an account on the Epic Games forums, you can request to receive your new password by email it to the address we have on file for you.
"The Unreal Developer Network (UDN) has not been compromised. None of our web sites ask for, or store, credit card information or other sensitive customer data."
Statement and current solution is here.
Epic's Tim Sweeney states:
"Our Epic Games web sites and forums were recently hacked. We're working on getting them back up and running, and expect everything to be restored in a few days.
"The hackers likely obtained the email addresses and encrypted passwords of forum users. Plain text passwords weren't revealed, but short or common passwords could be obtained by brute-force attack. Therefore, we're resetting all passwords. If you have an account on the Epic Games forums, you can request to receive your new password by email it to the address we have on file for you.
"The Unreal Developer Network (UDN) has not been compromised. None of our web sites ask for, or store, credit card information or other sensitive customer data."
Statement and current solution is here.
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PaulRayment 13 Jun 2011 09:46
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Is it a matter of time before Xbox Live is done? Or is this why I'm paying £30 a year? I'm not expecting Microsoft to come out and let us know what they do security wise but would be interesting to know if they are any more secure than the other guys.