News

Dirt Publisher Codemasters Suffers Major Hack Attack, Personal Data Exposed

U.K.-based publisher video game Codemasters e-mailed its customers today to tell them that the publisher suffered a major online security breach one week ago.


June 7, 2011
PlayStation

Hacker Group Says It’s Snagged Sony Computer Entertainment’s Developer Code

The hacker collective Lulz Security isn’t taking a break from its attacks on Sony simply because it’s E3. This morning, via Twitter, Lulzsec bragged that it had compiled Sony Computer Entertainment’s Developer Network source code. Earlier in the week Lulzsec went after Sony BMG and Sony Pictures, and broke into Nintendo USA’s website.


June 6, 2011
Nintendo

Hackers Who Hit Sony Now Breach Nintendo’s U.S. Website

Nintendo said today that hackers breached a server for its U.S. website but no customer information was compromised. The hacker group Lulzsec, which is behind other breaches of Sony websites earlier this week, claimed responsibility.


May 27, 2011
News

Latest Hacker Target: Codemasters

Four days before the North American street date for DiRT 3, password and login data for Codemasters’ website was posted online, the developer said, making it the latest name in games to suffer an online attack.


April 17, 2011
News

Electronic Frontier Foundation Gets $10K From GeoHot’s Legal Fund

You may remember that George Hotz, the hacker/rapstar who jailbroke the PS3 and then got sued by Sony, solicited donations for his legal defence. You may remember that Hotz and Sony recently settled. You may wonder what he’s doing with the leftover donations. Don’t worry, he didn’t forget where they came from.


March 24, 2011
News

Two Years In Jail For Hacker Who Stole $US300k From Zynga Poker

The British hacker who fleeced Zynga Poker for 400 billion chips, which have an official worth of $US12 million, $US300,000 on the black market, will serve two years in prison.