Electronic Arts joins the "We've been hacked!" club, with an ancient Bioware forum server recently breached.
Bloody hell - anyone else getting tired of the hacking? Looks like Electronic Arts is the latest to come under attack, with a decade-old Neverwinter Nights Bioware forum. Here's the details, as EA sent to forum user TinBane via a recent email:
"We recently learned that hackers gained unauthorized access to the decade-old BioWare server system supporting the Neverwinter Nights forums. We immediately took appropriate steps to protect our consumers’ data and launched a thorough ongoing evaluation of the breach. We have determined that no credit card data was compromised from the servers, nor did we ever have or store sensitive data like social security numbers. Our investigation shows that information such as user names, encrypted passwords, email addresses, mailing addresses, names, phone numbers, CD keys and birth dates from these forum accounts on the system may have been compromised, as well as other information (if any) that you may have associated with your EA Account. In an abundance of caution, we have changed your password to ensure account security. Please visit this link to reset your password immediately."
Two other users have confirmed the emails, and a FAQ on the breach can be found here. So, if you used to be active in the Neverwinter Nights community, might want to check it out. EA's said that no credit card data was compromised, but you can never be too sure.
Issue: 137 | June, 2012