Cryptic Studios Announces Security Breach, Warns Customers to Change Passwords

Cryptic Studios, developer and publisher of the online MMO games Star Trek Online and Champions Online have announced a security breach in their servers that may have compromised subscriber data including log in names and passwords.

In an email sent late last night the game studio has provided gamers who subscribe to and play their games with instructions on the steps to take to restore full access to their accounts, informing gamers that they have taken the cautionary step of changing log in passwords in light of the compromise.