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The developer of Gears of War has sent out an email confirming a recent hacking attack to its website and forum. The email states:
“Our Epic Games web sites and forums were recently hacked. After some downtime, they’re back up and running now.
The hackers may have obtained the email addresses and encrypted passwords of forum users. Plaintext passwords weren’t revealed, but it’s possible that those passwords could be obtained by a brute-force attack on the encrypted passwords. Therefore, we have reset all passwords. Your new password at the bottom of this message.
The Unreal Developer Network (UDN) hasn’t been compromised. Thankfully, none of our web sites ask for, or store, credit card information or other financial data.
We’re sorry for the inconvenience, and appreciate everyone’s patience as we wrestle our servers back under control.
Tim Sweeney
Founder, Epic Games Inc”.
Epic are one of the latest firms to have been affected by such attacks, alongside the likes of Codemasters, Nintendo, Square-Enix, and Sony.
It’s still unclear whether or not untouched firms are taking precautions against these attacks, however with the number of major companies that have been put at risk it seems hackers are successfully demonstrating that personal information isn’t entirely as safe as we assumed.
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