Nintendo and Epic fall victim to hackers
Hacking spate claimes more victims
Nintendo and Epic have joined a growing list of high-profile developers and publishers that have fallen victim of hackers.
After the hacking of PSN, Eidos and Codemasters have found themselves targets for data thieves fishing for personal details and now Nintendo and Epic Games have been attacked as well.
Epic's Tim Sweeny confirmed their attack saying: "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. 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."
Nintendo has identified what it calls a possible phishing threat and has closed down part of their European website and Club Nintendo while they investigate.
Thanks Develop Online.
