Epic Hacked
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http://www.thehackernews.com/2011/06/epic-games-database-hacked-by-contra.html
As well as email.
At least they are upfront about it. If you have been on for UDK forums you should take note.
As well as email.
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.
At least they are upfront about it. If you have been on for UDK forums you should take note.
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They just want all the companies to upgrade their securities? Keeping them on their toes, so people who would otherwise abuse the information would gain access?
All we hear are issues with the companies no one is really saying anything from the side lines like the public complaining all their cards where charged without their knowledge.
Such as in the case with P.S.N. network going down, unless we are just not hearing about It?!
This is why: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/110914-Security-Analyst-Explains-Why-We-Love-Lulzsec
Less then 20% of all company's world wide will ever report they have been hacked due to bad press, drop in stock, loss of investors, backlash from the public. But now with the huge Sony mess company's feel that now they cant not tell people less they suffer the same fate as Sony did.
The reason the Sony issue exploded was because when most hackers break in and steal data it dosnt effect people on the visible surface, you would never know. But with Sony, there entire games net work went down. In a realm of intangible things, people lost the "tangible" use of there gaming consoles, and there are a few million people out there that kinda noticed.
And I guess they might be hacking more often now because it is the perfect time to do it, but in reality this shit happens so much its frightening.
You have to remember that Sony, Microsoft, Eidos, Ubisoft, Epic and Nintendo are all game companies with actual networks and development wiki's, so naturally they need to protect that stuff left and right. They also can and might have personal and sensitive data here and there, especially if financial records are held.
I don't know if Contra hacked Epic out of spite or to, like LulzSec, to expose something, but that doesn't change the fact that MANY people have terrible security online. On a daily basis, I hear about how new guys claiming to be Security kings, when they didn't even pass first year of Uni and how they're protecting game company X,Y,Z...if you don't even run basic checkup on a 30 old guy who just faked his papers for software management, I suggest you take this route here:
http://chainsawsuit.com/comics/20110527.png
...apart from hacking, then scraping, their databases for email addresses and sending out really badly written emails saying they're a web designer and they make amazing websites.
I didn't see any Penis Tanks...where are they!? Show me! The Penis must flow!
http://www.gamesthirst.com/2011/06/13/hacker-group-hacked-into-bethesda-weeks-ago-promises-to-embarrass-the-firm-soon-demands-skyrim-details/
Sure you can update your shit to prevent future stuff happening (which is a good thing yes) but... IT'S ALREADY FUCKIN HAPPENED and your info is out there already. The damage has already been done. Or am I missing something here?
That just seems malicious.
Major news outlets saw a down turn in their ratings, and paid hacker groups to hack companies that'd generate news, to start a media frenzy and panic over internet security, so their tech-security sponsors and investors would get some monies.
ororrrrrr
the government is funding hacker groups, to influence state senators and representatives to pen a bill to criminalize the behavior, while also regulating and clamping freedoms on the internet and requiring a new net-driven identity system so criminal(and noncriminal behavior) can be monitored and tracked, since ip addresses were deemed to not = the person.
/tinfoilhat
that was fun :P
on a more serious note, sucks our forums got hacked, and now Bethesda, and others.
that would also explain why they declined the prize for hacking that one website...their government bosses are paying them moar <_<
Hackers "hacking" websites for personal information, soon we'll be running under new rules.
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Just posting this here for future reference.
Where does it say they released the data they obtained?
Anyways, all this hacking is good. Better get serious about computer security sooner rather than later.
Yes, you heard that right, if you reported to a company about an issue with their backdoor on their servers, they could legally sue you without issues.
I guess you could call this a boiling issue of sorts if you will. Call me old fashioned, but usually when I report a problem to company, I like getting a nice reward or a pat on the back, not a nice letter next day telling me I could get sued and they're investigating me.
not just gaming sites...
Lulzsec Take Down Eve & Minecraft via RockPaperShotgun
How long is it before they take down all of the internets?
cf "Cyber Security Act", "Digital ID Act", "Real ID Act", "Open ID Act", "Patriot Act", Internet ID program, Internet Passport program/initiative and so on.. Not to mention that the Federal Government regards the Internet as a "critical infrastructure" so it can be 'protected' under the same umbrella as anything to do with "National Security".
It's not without its sense of irony that just as the Federal Government is pushing the Cybersecurity act that this stuff starts to happen. Plays right into their hands of those wanting to centralise and control the Net.
Agreed, but it scares me more if more than two news topics regarding successfully hacking in to the known firms and companies of the software industry shows how fragile their security is.
Because that info is actually worth money.
You don't think people haven't already tried?
http://technorati.com/technology/article/cyber-intel-alert-hackers-take-down/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+trarticles+%28All+articles+at+Technorati%29