Publisher Bethesda has announced that its website and forums were subject to an “unlawful” attack over the weekend.
“We believe we have taken appropriate action to protect our data against these attacks,” said a blog post just published. “While no personal financial information or credit card data was obtained, the hackers may have gained access to some user names, email addresses, and/or passwords. As a precaution, we recommend that all our fans immediately change passwords on all our sites.”
They also suggest that if you use the same username, email address or password for any other sites, change your details on those too.
It’s expected that hacker group Lulzsec are behind the attacks.
Thanks, Eurogamer.
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nemesisND1derboy
Just give me five minutes in a room with my shotgun.
Motherfuckers gonna get blown the fuck up.
The funny thing is, bunimomike will tell you, I’m serious. I would kill them. Stone dead.
Forrest_01
I’m with you mate – See;
http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2011/06/13/bethesda-hacked/comment-page-1/#comment-338470
Uhyve
What’s weird is that Lulzsec claims that they broke in over two months ago and have had the brink user data for weeks:
http://twitter.com/#!/lulzsec
yogh_wayne
Yeah, I guess they claim a lot. You (and everybody else) should stop following them on Twitter. Having followers makes them think that there are actually people who support their random attacks on game developers/publishers, and only encourages them to steal even more private information of customers.
Uhyve
Heh, I don’t even have a twitter account, so I’m not a proper follower or anything, I just pay attention to their antics.
deadwelsh
too much hacking for not enough reason.allk this is doing is helping the powers that be build a case for more control over the internet, Stop it you childish wankers
Foxhound_Solid
Seems no one is safe.
Smallville2106
Wish this would all stop. Makes me wonder whether it is even safe to shop online nevermind play online etc.
Awayze
Online shopping uses 128 bit encryption so you’rr ok unless you shop at shady stores -_-
Origami Killer
Really getting bored of these hacks on everything, glad internet secruity is increasing though :) and good to hear that a lot of hackers have been put behind bars:)
Awayze
The US Senate site has been hacked by Lulz, I have to lol at “Lulz”, and Spanish police website has been hacked by Anoymous.
It’s getting ridiculous now.