{"id":12437,"date":"2011-06-17T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"bioware-forums-hacked-18-000-personal-accounts-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/12437-bioware-forums-hacked-18-000-personal-accounts-stolen","title":{"rendered":"BioWare forums hacked, 18,000 personal accounts stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BioWare has confirmed that it is the latest victim of a recent surge in security hacks against companies working in the video games industry.<\/p>\n<p>EA has confirmed that personal details for roughly 18,000 users have been stolen from the Neverwinter Nights forum, calling it a &ldquo;highly complicated and unlawful cyber attack&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>EA remains adamant that the breach was &ldquo;extremely limited&rdquo;, saying the hackers only gained access to a very small portion of user accounts on the database. The information stolen includes account names, real names, e-mail addresses, passwords, nationality and birthdays.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the breach, EA has resecured the forum&rsquo;s server system and is now investigating its own security to determine where improvements need to be made.<\/p>\n<p>BioWare joins Sony, Bethesda, CCP (Eve Online), Mojang (Minecraft), Codemasters, S2 Games and Epic Games on the list of games companies that have fallen victim to cyber crime this year.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/14829-Bioware-forums-hacked?p=459617#post459617\" target=\"_self\">Discuss latest hack attacks<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another developer falls prey to cyber crime<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12437","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\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}