{"id":124145,"date":"2022-03-14T08:17:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T06:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=124145"},"modified":"2022-03-14T10:01:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T08:01:03","slug":"ubisoft-resets-all-employee-passwords-after-cyber-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/124145-ubisoft-resets-all-employee-passwords-after-cyber-attack","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft resets all employee passwords after cyber attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ubisoft has initiated a company-wide employee password reset after a \u2018cyber security incident\u2019 was detected last week.<\/p>\n<p>The incident <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ubisoft.com\/en-us\/article\/3tSsBh25mhHhlbGSy1xbRw\/ubisoft-cyber-security-incident-update\">reportedly<\/a> caused disruptions to the companies services and some of its games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last week, Ubisoft experienced a cyber security incident that caused temporary disruption to some of our games, systems, and services.&#8221; said Ubisoft. &#8220;Our IT teams are working with leading external experts to investigate the issue. As a precautionary measure, we initiated a company-wide password reset.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While services and games impacted by the incident have since returned to normal, the security incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>We can confirm that the cyber security incident had not compromised the Ubisoft database and player information.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Also, we can confirm that all our games and services are functioning normally and that at this time, there is no evidence any player personal information was accessed or exposed as a by-product of this incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/124135-the-best-mid-range-gaming-monitor\">The Best mid-range gaming monitor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubisoft has initiated a company-wide employee password reset after a \u2018cyber security incident\u2019 was detected last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":124147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25903,733],"class_list":["post-124145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-security-incident","tag-ubisoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}