Epic Games Hacked?

willhub · 10 Jun 2011 at 23:36

Just got this email:

Dear ballstoyou

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

Note the bit in bold :confused:

deadite66 · 10 Jun 2011 at 23:54

got 2 emails now

** We apologize if you're getting this message twice. We had a problem with our password reset script. **

2 different new passwords in the emails.

TheCenturion · 10 Jun 2011 at 23:58

Everyone's getting hacked. In a way, this is a good thing. Hopefully these companies will start using proper security

EDIT: google reveals no news of epic being haxxored

willhub · 11 Jun 2011 at 00:00

They only sent it twice because the hackers changed the name to "ballstoyou"

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/24118/Epic-Games-Website-and-Forums-Hacked/

Teknobry · 11 Jun 2011 at 00:01

Proper tears @ them not realising the email script had been hacked!! Lol!

Mr Krugga · 11 Jun 2011 at 00:02

This is not funny

Murray · 11 Jun 2011 at 00:06

Mr Krugga said:
This is not funny

+1

All the companys getting hacked is not good.

anuraj · 11 Jun 2011 at 00:18

What I think I will call a hole.

gropingmantis · 11 Jun 2011 at 00:29

Murray said:
+1

All the companys getting hacked is not good.

If it is the Lulz Boat doing this then its a good thing. They haven't be distributing peoples information merely pointing out how easily it can be done. Its a very very good thing. Would you rather have insecure data that nobody holding the data knew was insecure, or would you rather they knew about it and fixed it. This is the best way to find holes in security programs.

I'd far rather people were doing it to make a point rather than to actually defraud me.

mattjd · 11 Jun 2011 at 00:30

I'm just hoping Live and Steam don't get hacked because that is the only place I store card details. Well I have removed them from Steam just in case.

Sony, Nintendo, Codemasters, Epic and Play.com and some others have been hacked this year. Security is sure in a mess on the interwebz.

Murray · 11 Jun 2011 at 00:51

gropingmantis said:
If it is the Lulz Boat doing this then its a good thing. They haven't be distributing peoples information merely pointing out how easily it can be done. Its a very very good thing. Would you rather have insecure data that nobody holding the data knew was insecure, or would you rather they knew about it and fixed it. This is the best way to find holes in security programs.

I'd far rather people were doing it to make a point rather than to actually defraud me.

Yeah I understand but I would rather be without all these hacker scares.

gropingmantis · 11 Jun 2011 at 00:53

Murray said:
Yeah I understand but I would rather be without all these hacker scares.

Its only a scare if you interpret it that way. A security breach is hardly a scare. Not like a bomb scare.

jakspyder · 11 Jun 2011 at 01:30

worst case scenario, someone spends my £4.22 :'(