Bethesda has confirmed that hacking attacks were executed against its websites over the past weekend. Bethesda said that hackers may have gained access to user details and advises that anyone whom has registered an account change their passwords immediately. Nothing too serious was taken, along the lines of personal information and credit card details.
The hacking attacking appears to be yet another move by the now notorious Lulz Security outfit, aka LulzSec. The first sign that something was afoot emerged on the LulzSec twitter account on 12 Jun: “We were going to keep this little treasure chest to ourselves, but it appears the hand has been bitten. Say your prayers, Brink users. >:]”
This was followed up with more claims: “Big lulz coming up in the near future. Time to show these bitches how it’s done. #Brink #Bethesda #ZeniMax”; “We’re going to release lots of Bethesda/ZeniMax data today – however we might not release their 200,000+ users as we love Call of Cthulhu.”; and finally, “Bethesda, we broke into your site over two months ago. We’ve had all of your Brink users for weeks. Please fix your junk, thanks! ^_^”
Bethesda confirmed the hack via a statement on their website:
Over the past weekend, a hacker group attempted an unlawful intrusion of our websites to gain access to data. We believe we have taken appropriate action to protect our data against these attacks. While no personal financial information or credit card data was obtained, the hackers may have gained access to some user names, e-mail addresses, and/or passwords. As a precaution, we recommend that all our fans immediately change passwords on all our sites — including our community forums, statistics site for Brink, and here on the blog.
If your username/e-mail address/password is similar to what you use on other sites, we recommend changing the password at those sites as well. As we don’t know what further plans the hackers may have, we suggest that you keep an eye out for suspicious emails and account activity.
We regret any inconvenience that these attacks on us cause for you. These attacks will be evaluated to determine if there are any additional protections we might take that would be prudent.
As with their previous hacks, LulzSec has hosted the data they obtained on the LulzSec website.
In a press release the group said “After mapping [Bethesda Softworks and ZeniMax Media’s] internal network and thoroughly pillaging all of their servers, we grabbed all their source code and database passwords, which we proceeded to shift silently back to our storage deck. Please find enclosed everything we took, excluding one thing -200,000+ Brink users. We actually like this company and would like for them to speed up the production of Skyrim, so we’ll give them one less thing to worry about. You’re welcome! :D”
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