In what seems to be a daily occurence, BioWare has confirmed the loss of data for 18,000 EA accounts.
The following has been posted by BioWare’s Aaryn Flynn:
“Yesterday (June 14), we learned that a hacker gained unauthorized access to the decade-old BioWare community server system associated with the Neverwinter Nights forums. We immediately took appropriate steps to protect our consumers’ data and launched an ongoing evaluation of the seriousness of the breach.
We have determined that no credit card data was compromised, nor did we ever have or store sensitive data like social security numbers. However hackers may have obtained information such as user account names and passwords, email addresses, and birth dates of approximately 18,000 accounts–a very small percentage of total users.
We have emailed those whose accounts may have been compromised and either disabled their accounts or reset their EA Account passwords. If you did not receive an email from us, or if your password still works for your EA account, your username and password were not compromised. Nevertheless, changing your password regularly is always helpful to protect your account.”
At this point in time the only person on the internet who hasn’t got my password is me.
TheSixthAxis reminds all readers that passwords should be unique to each site and service you use. You change your TSA password (or email address) at any time by clicking here.
gazzagb
You would have thought by now, most websites holding sensitive information would have upgraded their security… evidently not.
simplebob
Obviously my Dragon Age achievements hold no interest for the hacking scrotes….my accounts still up and working. Feel left out now….sulk….
Bilbo_bobbins
as much as I hate these useless twats trying to hack everything, it is infact good in a way, that its making all these companies aware, they need to make sure they make the correct steps to make our information safe, otherwise, people will start to not share it, then they will have a bigger problem
Nauraph
I think I really should start using unique passwords for each/most services..
gaffers101
I’ve tried to do that, and then forget which one was which.
Kevatron400
Get a system which links all your passwords together, but only the system is known to you, there was a good discussion about it on the forums that might be worth a look.
Kennykazey
Bad hackers, you are bringing shame on your kind and when the internet is under governmental control it’s all your fault.
Sympozium
iPower will be all for nothing….
Smallville2106
Unbelievable. I would have thought after the Sony hack companies might have upgraded security etc. Especially large companies like EA. For some reason they haven’t bothered. The companies need to start taking action by upgrading etc.
BigCheese
This s getting a bit fucking much now, seriously. Just fuck off back to your little hacker-hidey-holes and enjoy your games and get a life. Stop stealing my fecking data!
Radiitz
That’s it, I’ve had it. This has got to be some ridiculous joke upon the gaming world. Why is it that since PSN got hacked, that now all of the sudden other gaming related shit is getting hacked? What the hell is going on? Its starting to become a, ugh, trend. And I hate that word…
These hackers really need to just see the bright side of life. What was it some of the hackers said the other week? They told PSN users they should be thankful that the hackers forced them to get fresh air while it was down, right? Shouldn’t those hackers be doing the same thing?
Foxhound_Solid
They should be shot….
Sympozium
Or caste down a endless pit?
BrainDiver
I’m glad this wasn’t new data, otherwise I would have to change all my passwords again… These guys will get what’s coming to them eventually I’m sure.