No one ever thinks they will be the victim of a phishing scam or account hacking until it finally happens to them. A hacked Xbox LIVE account is an inconvenience at the very least, but how bad can it get and what should you do if you’re a victim? Read more to find out. More »
Located in a South China shopping center, this shop doesn’t merely “fix” consoles. It fixes them so they can run pirates games. Common throughout the country, the “Chinese pirates hacking den”, as website China Underground called it, specialises in flashing (modding) Xbox 360 and hacking consoles like the PlayStation 3 and the Wii. More »
It’s…it’s like the entire internet, rolled up into a single story. More »
Publisher Square Enix has announced that, following the discovery that somebody “may have gained unauthorised access to a particular Square Enix server”, the company’s members service has been brought offline in both Japan and the United States. More »
Since October, we’ve heard anecdotal accounts of Xbox Live members finding suspicious purchases on their credit cards and learning their accounts had been recovered to another machine. Now it’s happened to a games writer — just this past week. More »
So, that enormous data trespass that Korean online powerhouse Nexon revealed last week was bad. Bad enough to be the second-largest such incursion in Korean history. If you think that sounds like there’ve been some other big security breaches, then you’re right. More »
The second-largest data breach in South Korea’s history compromised the personal information of more than 13 million subscribers to the Nexon MMO MapleStory, but none of those accounts are held outside of Korea, the publisher said Saturday. More »
Last month, a surprisingly large-scale hacking attack went down on Xbox Live, all centred around EA Sports’ FIFA 11 and FIFA 12. Microsoft today acknowledged the intrusions, but is adamant they weren’t the result of hacks. More »
Today Valve told us that their cloud-based Steam service has been compromised, and that users’ personal information and credit card information could be at risk. More »
