Reports began to surface last year from players whose Xbox Live accounts were hacked after they played FIFA 11 and FIFA 12.
Giant video game publisher EA and its most popular video games are rich targets for hackers and scammers, but the company is determined to fight back and protect its users, EA’s number two executive tells Kotaku.
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.
Nintendo today sent a message to members of its European website saying that a potential phishing threat prompted the company to close down portions of the site, including Club Nintendo
Relative to the grand hack of last month, having one of Sony’s official sites turn up a phishing exploit doesn’t seem all that bad.
Digital delivery service Steam wants to keep its users’ accounts secure, but software security is a fragile thing. That’s why Valve has teamed with Intel for Steam Guard, hardware-based security that could make account phishing a thing of the past.
Apparently there are some phishing emails going around – for what other purpose would someone fake an invitation to a sign-up for a Battlefield: Bad Company 2 beta? EA says no such thing exists.
Be careful what you log into, Steam users. A new account phishing scheme is targeting users of Valve’s digital distribution platform, luring in gamers with the promise of gifted copies of Ubisoft’s Far Cry 2.