The intrusion into Epic’s web sites and forums appears to be on a much smaller scale than that of other recently hacked game companies. Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney said in a letter to its customers that “email addresses and encrypted passwords” may have been obtained by hackers. The company has reset those passwords and informed account holders via email.
“Thankfully, none of our websites ask for, or store, credit card information or other financial data,” Sweeney writes in his letter, assuring fellow game developers that the Unreal Developer Network was not compromised. Here’s the letter going out to affected Epic Games community members.
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
Thanks to everyone who sent this in!
About this week’s data loss [Epic Games Forums]
JPhillips
Saturday, June 11, 2011 at 2:47 PMSeriously though, something needs to change and real soon. This is getting way too out of hand.
SCIBOTIC
Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 2:38 AMActually I hope this continues so these companies push harder for better security in the first place. The fact that it’s happening so often right now is just to demonstrate that the security they’re using is inadequate.
Jawz
Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 4:50 PMThey need to stop being so UBR l33t c0ol and learn to masturbate or kick a ball or just anything.
Jagji
Saturday, June 11, 2011 at 4:08 PMCodemasters was hacked too. Got an e-mail from them, tho I am not bothered about it as I don’t really go to there site, there store and VIP stuff for Dirt 3 was also compramised….
The reson it is getting out of hand is becuse peeps are to relaxed. LolzSec, altho I don’t like what there doing, arew needed to get companys to actully start taking securaty seriesly again.
(Nickname withheld)
Saturday, June 11, 2011 at 4:58 PMLooks like you need to start taking English seriously, too.
Wow
Monday, June 13, 2011 at 12:21 AMShaznayam!
JPhillips
Saturday, June 11, 2011 at 5:38 PMNo, they are not needed. When some one devotes their life to being a pain the ass for the general population, it is about time for them to be removed from the gene pool.
As much as Lulsec might claim that they did it to prove a point, I am pretty sure it is more likely they did it for fame.
Dissection
Saturday, June 11, 2011 at 5:50 PMI could make a joke here about hacking and Sony but I won’t because it’s too easy to do. Just like hacking Sony.
Sam
Saturday, June 11, 2011 at 5:57 PMsnap
RocK_M
Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 11:07 AMSo where’s my free games Epic? xD
VGP
Saturday, June 11, 2011 at 6:58 PMits so easy to “hack” a website, what really matters is the reason why they are doing it. Soon the good guys become the bad guys..
Matthew
Saturday, June 11, 2011 at 8:27 PMthis is really getting out of hand now, it’s no longer a matter people showing weak security, it’s a form of cyber anarchy. Just reading the lulz sec twitter feed, and it looks like facebook is a target as well as they are using gained emails and passwords to gain access to the site and defacing accounts.
I wish they were caught but this day in age in technology, trying to catch people who know their stuff and can go through like 50 different systems to prevent being back tracked to them.
Shinkada
Saturday, June 11, 2011 at 8:55 PMMy response to Sony’s hack was that enough people and you can do anything; that the solution was to not be such jerks that so many people want to hack you in the first place.
But… Epic? Why would anyone hack Epic? Even if you’re not a big Gears fan like I’m not, it’s hardly as much overhyped garbage as Halo, and the Unreal engine is fantastic. God. This has definitely gone far beyond proving a point and straight onto just being dickweeds.
mattroe
Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 4:08 PMYou hide your fanboyism quite badly.
Jawz
Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 4:54 PMThe sad part is the hackers probably think they are doing the ‘right’ thing in hacking all these companies.
Lucas
Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 7:54 AMYou forgot to mention Eidos :O
Michael
Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 9:53 AMGood to see some origionallity from hackers, ‘oh lets hack another software company’. Like no one has ever done that before.
Feels like one of those dumb fashion trends. Once one person does it, soon everyone follows suit.
The Insufferable Senor Steengo
Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 12:58 PMNow it seems Playstation Universe has been compromised: http://i.imgur.com/DK5OT.png (NSFW, cuss words).
Becca
Monday, June 13, 2011 at 9:53 AMhow the hell did one of the worlds biggest TNC’s like sony get hacked…not once, but twice!!
MajorFoley
Monday, June 13, 2011 at 3:07 PMLets put it this way. Sony, codemasters and now Epic, soon it may even be Bungie. This is starting to look like a hackers revolution and it should be stopped. what is the bloody point? “Oh sure i get a few credit card numbers and some extra cash” they should bloody get a life and earn a living. I hope they all get caught this is getting way out of hand