Dublicate story, posted already 13h ago http://n4g.com/news/783807/...

I removed my CC details from Steam. Just in case.

Dont expect forums to have much security anyway. Sort of thing probably happens all the time.

This has always happened, it's just an obsession at the moment with the media reporting on every incident.

It's possible it's happening more but that could be because of the reporting causing a greater interest in exploiting the security holes that still exist in some weak systems.

Must be an epic hacker....
lol

IS that normal and we just missed that before PSN probs ?

Or there real moves by hackers ?

I think this is bullshit because I got those exact emails this morning

and in the first it said "Dear balls to you" which I was like what? this is EPIC games emailing me?

Then it sent another when I deleted the e-mail another was sent correcting my old gamertag/username to what it actually was.

"We're sorry for the inconvenience, and appreciate everyone's patience as we wrestle our servers back under control."

Direct quote from the email.....that doesnt sound professional at all...wrestle our servers back and since when do MS affiliated companies like EPIC who are professional send out emails that are in blank text form with absolutely no graphics at all?

"** We apologize if you're getting this message twice. We had a problem with our password reset script. **"

I call bullshit.

And apart from that I never remember signing up for the EPIC games forums so what the hell? it sounds like a scam. Dont trust it people, ive asked one of the devs on twitter to see if they confirm it for me so il update on here when I get a reply.

Peace

This be crazy!

I hate that forum and its mass of unorganized mods. Hope these hackers can fix it...

Thing is it's not just the gaming industry that's being affected; Citibank were hacked last week and NATO warned that hackers might try to attack military systems. I'm not sure what their motives are but all they're doing is annoying a lot of people.

Comes around. The only "cause" hackers have is their own. Only a fool would believe hackers are on their side. I wonder how Cliffy likes his 1st taste of working with hackers.

And that, boys and girls. Is why you do not use vBulletin or any other open/closed source php scripts.

Surely Epic had the skill and money to author their own forum system?

There are like 10 0-days discovered every month in vBulletin and they take several months to be fixed.

Someone on Kotaku did a interesting parallel except apply it to gaming.

"First they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me."

-- Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)

whats the point of hacking a forum?

Apparently codemasters has been hacked too :/

they f*cked bleszinski up LOL

hackers should get their butts chainsawed in the most brutal manner.

This is getting ridiculous they must change the law to be tougher on hackers.

this isnt video game related but the College Board was hacked a few weeks ago too

Hmm got the mail to:

Dear 1nsaint,

Our Epic Games web sites and forums were recently hacked.  After some downtime, they're back up and running now.

The hackers may have obtained the email addresses and encrypted passwords of forum users. Plaintext passwords weren't revealed, but it's possible that those passwords could be obtained by a brute-force attack on the encrypted passwords. Therefore, we have reset all passwords.  Your new password at the bottom of this message.

The Unreal Developer Network (UDN) hasn't been compromised.  Thankfully, none of our web sites ask for, or store, credit card information or other financial data.

We're sorry for the inconvenience, and appreciate everyone's patience as we wrestle our servers back under control.

Tim Sweeney
Founder, Epic Games Inc

Serves Cliff right, he made all those asshole comments at E3

What we need to do is hire a lot of girls to go out with these hackers. Seriously, they need to stop with this shit.

Go hackers go bring down society be a great laugh.

Can't blame 'em, they just wanna play Gears 3 already.

You can't say he didn't deserve it.

Bulletstorm 2?