BioWare Neverwinter Nights server hacked
Mark Ankucic June 16, 2011 - 8:44 am
Are people still playing that…?
The accounts of 18,000 Neverwinter Nights forum users were compromised some time before the 14th. In a statement on the Bioware forum, Aaryn Flynn, VP of Electronic Arts, had this to say:
Yesterday (June 14), we learned that a hacker gained unauthorized access to the decade-old BioWare community server system associated with the Neverwinter Nights forums. We immediately took appropriate steps to protect our consumers’ data and launched an ongoing evaluation of the seriousness of the breach. We have determined that no credit card data was compromised, nor did we ever have or store sensitive data like social security numbers. However hackers may have obtained information such as user account names and passwords, email addresses, and birth dates of approximately 18,000 accounts–a very small percentage of total users. We have emailed those whose accounts may have been compromised and either disabled their accounts or reset their EA Account passwords. If you did not receive an email from us, or if your password still works for your EA account, your username and password were not compromised. Nevertheless, changing your password regularly is always helpful to protect your account.
We take the security of your information very seriously and regret any inconvenience this may have caused you. If your username, email address and/or password on the Neverwinter Nights forums are similar to those you use on other sites, we recommend changing your password at those sites as well. We advise all of our fans to always be aware of any suspicious emails or account activity and report any suspicious emails and account activity to Customer Support at 1-866-543-5435.
Whether it was Anonymous, Lulzsec or another hacker group is yet to be confirmed. This is following the recent train of hacking incidents that have affected nearly all of the major players in the gaming industry. What may have started as a political point made by Anonymous is now more or less a game to see who can accomplish what. While there have been no confirmed reports of people’s details being stolen and used, gamers still have much cause for concern.
Thanks to Eurogamer.
