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Epic Hacked

[Jun 11, 2011, 1:57 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

A break-in on the Epic Games Website is the latest in a rash of data breaches on gaming websites. Here's a note from Epic passed along by Mouser:

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

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Re: Epic Hacked

Jun 12, 2011, 18:28

Krovven

PHJF wrote on Jun 12, 2011, 13:49: Is there any evidence of these hackers (or any of the other big recent hacks) doing any financial damage to the end-user? Every single developer has employees, we are all end users. You are posting on a forum that has many developers from companies in partnership with Sony, Epic, etc. There are people on the other end of each of those Brand Names. Billions of dollars were lost to the global economic system due to the PSN hack. Nothing is safe. Not in the banks, not in your homes, not in digital form, not on secure servers. If someone wants something bad enough and has the resources behind them to get it done, it will happen. When it's obvious there are many security holes in software, that people work daily to keep up with hackers finding new holes. Putting such harsh blame on people trying to do their jobs with the tools available to them, is ignorance. As someone below said, the hacker chose to commit a crime, blame falls on them.

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