Fri, Jun 10, 2011 | 16:37 BST
Codemasters hacked, personal data compromised
Codemasters has confirmed that its website had suffered an “attack” and “intrusion” last Saturday.
Personal data has been compromised.
Codemasters.com has been taken down, redirecting instead to its Facebook page. VIP code redemption for DiRT 3 and the Codemasters eStore has also been pulled.
“We advise you to change any passwords you have associated with other Codemasters accounts,” the publisher has said in a statement sent out today.
Data compromised includes names, physical addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, encrypted passwords, order history for eStore, user names of Codemasters accounts, IP addresses and gamertags of Xbox Live users.
Credit card information is thought not to be compromised, however, due to not being stored on the servers.
Develop‘s been told that the amount of users affected is thought to be within the region of “thousands,” while the BBC’s report on the matter stretches to “tens of thousands of users.”
Those who have bought Codemasters games digitally or at retail won’t be affected.
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Posted in: Codemasters
Tags: hackers, hacking
8 comments
#1
JPickford
10/06/11, 2:46 pm
Typical, just copying Sony. Can’t they think of anything original?
#2
alimokrane
10/06/11, 2:46 pm
The new war: War on Hackers
#3
f1r3storm
10/06/11, 2:52 pm
Well, hacked again then.. if you remember: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2011-05-26-codemasters-latest-to-suffer-from-hacked-data
#4
Razor
10/06/11, 2:52 pm
“You can’t even call this shit a war”
“Why not?”
“Wars end”.
#5
viralshag
10/06/11, 3:02 pm
I’m beginning to wonder if this sort of stuff happens a lot more often than we actually hear about. Only now with Sony getting dragged through the dirt about it, it gives every man and his dog with a website/system holding personal info to come out and say “oh darn, it’s happened to us too! Sorry everyone but hey it’s not really our fault, those hackers are after ALL of us now! Thanks a lot Sony!”
#6
Johnny Cullen
10/06/11, 3:25 pm
Added a bit more in there from a Develop report.
#7
Fin
10/06/11, 4:25 pm
@4
Wire <3
#8
Xenoliath
10/06/11, 4:39 pm
Who are the Codemasters now?