Crytek sites hacked, user information possibly compromised

xvampire · Aug 2013

http://www.shacknews.com/article/80498/crytek-sites-hacked-user-information-possibly-compromised

doh, got this email

The sites listed below are currently offline:
Crytek.com
Mycryengine.com
Crydev.net
MyCrysis.com
The following Crytek sites remain online and are not affected by these issues:
GFACE.com
Crysis.com
Warface.com
If you have an account at crydev.net or mycrysis.com, you will be asked to change your password next time you log in. If you use your current password anywhere else online,

, I dont remember my password, hopefully Its not the one I use it frequently ...

ExcessiveZero · Aug 2013

All these security breaks are getting irritating.

joeriv · Aug 2013

Especially if the whole CE3 documentation is offline because of it

notman · Aug 2013

Yeah, I saw that yesterday, and based on the Ubisoft issue, I chose to wait, and see how it played out, before clicking/changing anything.

Wesley · Aug 2013

Super happy I bought/set-up 1Password. These sites seem to get hacked every other week now!

Bibendum · Aug 2013

I use KeePass, it's pretty amazing imo.

Brygelsmack · Aug 2013

Wesley wrote: »

These sites seem to get hacked every other week now!

I'm sorry?

Wesley · Aug 2013

Sorry, to be clear, I just meant 'these sites' as in, websites. Poor wording. I get pretty regular emails from websites I have accounts with saying they may have been compromised. I'm just glad I got out of the bad habit of having only a couple of passwords for everything.

Brygelsmack · Aug 2013

Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification!

Justin Meisse · Aug 2013

ugh, I pretty much don't sign up for online accounts anymore because it just means it will eventually get compromised.

littleclaude · Aug 2013

Why do they get you to login to use the editor? when UDK & Unity is just "click open"

PogoP · Aug 2013

Yeah this is really annoying now. I don't care about the forums etc, I just want to use the Wiki.. All Cryengine documentation has been down for like 5 days, and I'm racking my brains trying to figure out some audio issues which I'm sure would be explained in the Wiki. Wtf?

leleuxart · Aug 2013

PogoP wrote: »

Yeah this is really annoying now. I don't care about the forums etc, I just want to use the Wiki.. All Cryengine documentation has been down for like 5 days, and I'm racking my brains trying to figure out some audio issues which I'm sure would be explained in the Wiki. Wtf?

You can try viewing the cached version on Google. You won't be able to use links and the pictures are broken, but you can still read the text and maybe get some help. Better than nothing :thumbup:

PogoP · Aug 2013

Good shout, Leleuxart! Thanks for the tip.

shabba · Aug 2013

littleclaude wrote: »

Why do they get you to login to use the editor? when UDK & Unity is just "click open"

I believe because your map files can be shared with a dev team. So the login makes certain only certain people are allowed to edit it? I'm not a 100% on that.

Either way, I too would love the CryDev docs to be available. Will try that google suggestion, thanks leleuxart.

XilenceX · Aug 2013

shabba wrote: »

I believe because your map files can be shared with a dev team. So the login makes certain only certain people are allowed to edit it? I'm not a 100% on that.

Either way, I too would love the CryDev docs to be available. Will try that google suggestion, thanks leleuxart.

Nah it's just their online DRM for the engine. You can make private projects which never appear on the sharing website for other developers. However you still have to log in all the same because of the DRM. The only difference is that everyone can open your project files without being on a "dev team".
That way they can control that noone uses the FreeSDK commercially, while Unity allows that in the free version so they need no DRM.

As for the hacking it seems to happen every now and then to CryDev, so I just hope that noones project data has been corrupted in the process.

Blaizer · Aug 2013

i'm scared, if they hack crynet systems... the next will be skynet!

Paradan · Aug 2013

Blaizer wrote: »

i'm scared, if they hack crynet systems... the next will be skynet!

that would be scary seeing as Skynet is the name of the software system the U.K. uses to control its drones.

Crytek sites hacked, user information possibly compromised

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