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Bethesda Gets Hacked

Bethesda: "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, email addresses, and/or passwords. As a precaution, we recommend that all our fans immediately change passwords on all our sites — including our community forums and the statistics site we maintain for Brink players."

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omi25p4700d ago

This is getting ridiculous.

extermin8or4700d ago

It's a joke you'd think they'd have caught at least some of this group now I mean THEY WERE TWEETING ON TWITTER WHILST THEY DID IT FOR GODS SAKE, how hard can it be to at least get Ip info off of twitter...

yess4700d ago

I am starting to think it's someone who have some security options for sale.
Like anti virus and stuff...

sikbeta4700d ago

What a bunch of @ssholes! where are those dudes in this site that defend those losers hackers, now? remeber what they said "they're doing it for us, the gamers" give me a break, those hackers only care about themselves and their major attention-wh*re issues...

fullymoated4700d ago

As a consolation, Bethesda has shown how to properly keep users in the loop about their credit card info in a timely fashion.

snaz274700d ago

yess... You're on the right track, i believe it's actually more sinister than that! The governments of the world do not like the internet! The free flow of information is not something they want! Because then people get informed! And that's definately not what they want!... They've already stopped some youtube vids in certain countries... But soon there will be a war on cyber terrorists! And they'll protect us by restricting and regulating the websites! Just you wait and see!

jimineyscrickets4700d ago

I'm sad to hear about this. I'm a big Bethesda fan. Theses hackers are making the world worse for those who enjoy video games.

mastiffchild4700d ago

@snaz27-been sayig the same, damn thing. the US, UK and even more draconian regimes, even more power and money hungry nations governments will be watching all this while rubbing their mucky hands as these idiots who cover their play time by saying they're "pro freedom" edge us ever closer to having to register EVERYTHING we do online via official sites etc. We will end up with authorities having the excuse they always wanted to monitor EVERY last message, text, chat and email we make-and all because these idiots want to wank their egos.

You can tell by their targets recently how little they (hackers)care about the world. Sony might not be angels and Bethesda DO make us pay for the chance to do their QA every time they release a game but how is hacking these companies rather than going after true evil like bigots, racists and bad, illegitimate regimes helping anyone/thing than their own selfish agendas? No priorities at all and they WILL be the ones who bring authority crashing down on all us innocent PC users and gamers.

DaTruth4700d ago

Soon it will be back to the good ol' days when we were forced to believe everything we hear on the mainstream news!

I know a few people who spend very little time on the internet and they just basically believe every bit of propaganda they hear from the mainstream media! They still think there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and USA is benevolent and somehow became the richest country on Earth by being nice to everyone!

BeOneWithTheGun4700d ago

If they so much as TOUCH the Skyrim data and delay the game I will hunt them down and kill them.

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S_C4700d ago

@ omi25p

Agreed, i wish these hackers would take a very long walk of a very short cliff

gamingdroid4700d ago (Edited 4700d ago )

You guys do know that the common theme for the latest string of breaches occur on PHP based websites. They are the most prone to web security because of the language design and the obscurity of their inconsistent API.

Anyone that uses PHP is really asking for trouble unless you are d@mn good at PHP, but even then....

Ocelot5254700d ago

fb uses php

personally I always program in ASP.NET

Gawdl3y4700d ago

PHP itself, when used properly, is pretty damned secure. Now, if you have some idiot who turns magic quotes on and relies on that for data sanitising, then that's asking for trouble.

Don't blame it on the language, blame it on the idiots that don't know how to properly sanitise data before putting it in a database or outputting it.

If you had said ColdFusion though, I'd agree with you wholeheartedly. ColdFusion is a dumb language in the first place, but combine it with the fact that most of the people that use it are beginner/intermediate programmers (it looks like HTML! Awesome!), and you get one hell of a security hole.

gamingdroid4700d ago (Edited 4700d ago )

PHP itself is pretty insecure and is a nightmare to maintain. If you are Facebook, sure you can get a secure site... Almost anyone would with that kind of resources.

A well designed language, allows beginners to write secure code by default and advanced users flexibility. PHP by default allows beginners to write poor code. Even great PHP programmers won't know every in's and out's of PHP to write secure code. That is not even touching the library issues.

Now if you are using a framework, it might shield you from that, but PHP is a nasty and very insecure language.

I won't speak for CFML as I don't have any experience maintaining sites, just building them, but the server is built on Java. If you have any issues there it might be the programmers and the design of the language.

ASP .NET like Java is pretty solid as a framework and C# is excellent, but I don't know about the web server IIS.

Personally, I recently started using Django/Python. Python's decent, but Django makes it one of the best frameworks I dealt with.

badz1494700d ago

when will all these ridiculousness end? hackers are officially declaring a digital war/terrorism and I think governments should start taking actions and taking them seriously now! this is no joke, this is WAR!

HSx94700d ago

yeah governments will begin censoring the internet SMART IDEA!

badz1494700d ago

you don't think they are monitoring the internet already?

HSx94700d ago

@badz149

I don't understand how Monitoring and Censoring is the same idea, idiot.

cjflora4700d ago

Ready the nukes. The pentagon considers this an attack now.

http://online.wsj.com/artic...

BrianC62344700d ago

I guess at least this might force the world to see the truth. The Internet is a mess. Nothing on it is safe and everything is getting put on it. Most companies that get hacked never say they were hacked. We need to look at more security for the Internet. Better programming. And for sure new worldwide laws to go after hackers. The current system is a joke. Most countries don't give a crap about arresting hackers. The FBI can't even do their job if the hacker is outside the US.

badz1494700d ago

calling me an idiot while you being the clueless one here! there's no need for censoring at all! nothing was censored recently but 35 hackers were caught, right? all I am saying was, they should be more vigilant to scare these low life off! idiot!

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zeal0us4700d ago

These hackers won't find any allies in the gaming community.

won't be long b4 every major gaming site is hacked

MWong4700d ago

It's getting INSANE. PSN, SOE, SquareEnix and now Bethesda.

Breadisgood4700d ago

...and Codemasters and Epic Games forums.

MRHARDON4700d ago

Dont forget Nintendo :D

g0green4700d ago

there doing it for us, the gamers. dont you guys see?!?

Mr Patriot4700d ago

yup i can see it pretty clearly :)

PS3pwnz4700d ago

Something big is going down. What if game companies and such are simply "practice" for a much larger assault. It's actually scary if you really think about it. Everything has a reason, and if you hack a sweet company like Bethesda, especially after the PSN outage, you better have a pretty good reason.
I'm sorry for Bethesda. <: (

BrianC62344700d ago

"As a consolation, Bethesda has shown how to properly keep users in the loop about their credit card info in a timely fashion. "

This isn't true if you believe what LulzSec says about it. They say they hacked them two months agol Here's their tweet.

"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! ^_^"

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WhiteLightning4700d ago

I don't get it they knew Lulzsec was coming for them why didn't they prepare. Not like Sony which was completly un expected.

BeastlyRig4700d ago

Everyone must think it won't happen to them!

Gordo7894700d ago

I hear there are no safe networks.

Ducky4700d ago (Edited 4700d ago )

...Prepare?

LulzSec announced it after the attack.
The blog is kind of late.

Ducky4700d ago (Edited 4700d ago )

^ Yea, they weren't announcing a new attack, rather, the attack was already more or less complete.

WhiteLightning4700d ago

....

look at what the Twitter post says

"Big lulz coming up in the near future"

"Near Future"

He didn't say

"Big lulz were hacking Bethesda right now"

BrianC62344700d ago

This hack happened two months ago. Sony let everyone know pretty fast compared to most companies. I bet Bethesda even knew they were hacked but said nothing. They all seem to keep it quiet and hope nobody notices.

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OC_MurphysLaw4700d ago

I still say attacking a broken game that is getting little play makes no sense. Bethesda... I implore you look elsewhere, my guess is Brink is a distraction tactic.

b163o14700d ago

Never thought of that angle. It would kill me if they got to Skyrim and found a way to delayed it......

KwietStorm_BLM4700d ago

How exactly would they do that?

b163o14700d ago

IDK. How do they get into anything they want to? I don't know the technical aspect of it, but it seems as if they can get into anything. They've hacked the FBI for christ sake.

Der_Kommandant4700d ago

What a fucking annoyance these virgin hackers are...

FlashXIII4700d ago

I like how you feel the need to refer to them as "virgin hackers". Bit butt hurt aren't we? Guess that's why you only have one bubble.

Ocelot5254700d ago

maybe that's the reason they hack, cuz we show no respect ;)

cjflora4700d ago

Why do the terrorists hate us and bomb us?

"maybe that's the reason they bomb us, cuz we show no respect ;)"

Yea, that makes sense.

/sarcasm

Tuxedoassassin4700d ago

This is just, I can´t even spell it, I still didn´t find that word.
I hope somebody will finnaly get these hackers, for hell, next time there will be a fiasco, that a PSN outage will look like a picnic.

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Fallout 4's 'next gen' update is over 14 gigs, breaks modded saves, & doesn't change much at all

We were expecting problems with mod support, but there are a lot of other issues.

isarai7h ago

Wow what the actual hell 🤣🤣🤣

just_looken6h ago

This is why you get the GOG version on gog you can select the version of the game to download.

On pc fallout 4 fallout new vegas and skyrim are all broken on steam because they all got the same "next gen" update.

Skyrim dec 2023
https://www.pcgamer.com/sky...

Can not find new vegas but anyone that modded it knows the script extender there was also broken

Valkyrye5h ago

Not accidental, they want modders to stop modding their older games to force them to mod Shitfield.

just_looken3h ago

There doing the same on starfield with a mods store and blocking mods

There goal is like blizzard and what they did with fallout 76 you make mods they can sell and you become a slave.

On skyrim they have "trusted" mod devs now basically a badge that lets your mod on the store you get a crumb of the sale when someone buys it.

Inverno1h ago

lol to the disagrees, the last Skyrim update broke mods too. They've been trying to kill mods to monetize them in creation club for years, it's not a stretch that they purposely put out patches just to break free mods.

porkChop23m ago

The disagrees are from people who have common sense. They aren't trying to kill mods. Most mods for any game will break with a new update because they rely on files/code that have been changed. This isn't new. Even with Bethesda this would happen way before the creation club. Mod support is literally one of the things that got Bethesda to where they are, and they're one of the only devs that releases comprehensive mod tools for each of their games.

Chocoburger1h ago

Over 14 GBs and doesn't change much at all? What? Taking up that much drive space for a pathetic 'remastering' is shameful.

Par for Bethesda.

Aussiesummer11m ago

It's not a remaster, it's a next gen update.

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Why Monopolies In Gaming Must Not Be Allowed

As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.

thorstein5h ago

Shouldn't be allowed in any field.

Inverno1h ago

And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.

jwillj2k446m ago

Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.

MrCrimson6m ago

tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.

Zenzuu1h ago

Monopolies shouldn't be allowed regardless. Not just for gaming.

MrCrimson7m ago

They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -

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Gears of War Voice Actor Hints At New Game Announcement Coming In June

A voice actor from The Coalition's third-person shooter series, Gears of War, has hinted at a new game announcement coming in June.

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Ra303021m ago

Hopefully Microsoft will go back to the original story line and get away from that woke nonsense from the last Gears game Gears of Woke! But were talking about Microsoft so all the betting money is on more of the same woke nonsense.