Following on from an attack on Codemasters.com in May, the publisher has revealed that its online security has been breached for a second time.
In an email to its customers the company said: "On Friday 3rd June, unauthorised entry was gained to our Codemasters.com website. As soon as the intrusion was detected, we immediately took codemasters.com and associated web services offline in order to prevent any further intrusion."
It underlined, however, that "no personal payment information was stored with Codemasters as we use external payment providers, meaning your payment details were not at risk from this intrusion."
The CodeM database - packed with further encrypted passwords, birth dates and gamertags - was similarly up for grabs.
Codemasters added: "Whilst we do not have confirmation that any of this data was actually downloaded onto an external device, we have to assume that, as access was gained, all of these details were compromised and/or stolen."
Sony, Square-Enix, Codemasters... where next for those fearless hackers? Let's hope the as-yet untouched publishers are putting up a few extra firewalls.
Comments
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humanhand on 10 Jun '11 said:
It feels like everyone is getting hacked around the world. No one is safe. Some day I'm sure there will be a dedicated major online police force.
Reality Check on 10 Jun '11 said:
This hacking News is getting BORING now.
metallicorphan on 10 Jun '11 said:
so when they were originally hacked on 20th May and various video game sites(including CVG)reported it on 26th May
and they had this to say for themselves
and so they then got hacked again on 3rd June?
well done CodeMasters
try4life on 10 Jun '11 said:
do they even make REAL games anymore
Barca Azul on 10 Jun '11 said:
Citibank have also been hacked in the news today, seems no one is safe. Still only so many times you can lose your data!
Coulson1990 on 10 Jun '11 said:
Wheres my cricket?!
Gaseous Snake on 10 Jun '11 said:
HEY! HACKERS! OVER HERE!
Hacker lips, meet collective arse of the world. Collective arse of the world, meet hackers.
Seriously though, someone needs to pull their finger out and stop them, before they actually get it in to their heads to start a friggin' cyber-war. This is getting beyond a joke.
fps_d0minat0r on 10 Jun '11 said:
looks like every games company is "incompetent"
manky on 10 Jun '11 said:
How many lulz can a lulzsec lul if a lulzsec can sec lulz?
They're a bunch of mentalists... but ultimately showing us all that the web is not a safe place. Saving your personal information to other peoples servers is possibly not the most sensible thing we've ever done.
Hope your passwords aren't all the same.
alan666 on 10 Jun '11 said:
sonic_uk on 10 Jun '11 said:
Seems its mainly gaming related sites and services that are under attack right now. These so called hackers are effectively destroying the industry they claim to want to protect. Stealing personal details of customers who have nothing to do whatsoever with the hackers "claims" only serves to show what scumbag little p*&^ks these scum really are and they deserve to burn in hell. F*&^ing w&%@ers.
Barca Azul on 11 Jun '11 said:
Thing is, it seems it doesn't matter how much you have, hackers will find a way.
If Lockhead marlin can be hacked, I doubt anything is safe.
Wait till they start on banks or something like Itunes!
kimoak on 11 Jun '11 said:
I can see the law changing with regards to hackers with stiffer penalties. Give these little nerdy bastards hard jail time with a hard nailing from a big guy called 'bubba'.
anytime on 11 Jun '11 said:
If the chinese want to hack lockheed they will. They have the most powerfull computer in the whole wide world.