Author Topic: "Hacked" Club - Update: BethSoft's Forums got hacked AGAIN  (Read 3396 times)

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Re: The "Hacked" Club - Bethesda Softworks is added to the club
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 12:59:57 AM »
I'm trying to figure what you mean by "hacked". Is it some sort of hidden meta meaning beneath the word that you learned from being in the deep inner circles of piracy?

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Re: The "Hacked" Club - Bethesda Softworks is added to the club
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 02:17:41 AM »
Well, psuedo-hacked.. They do it because all the cool companies are getting "hacked" these days.

It's a Hackstravaganza!
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Re: The "Hacked" Club - Update: Minecraft, League of Legends, and EVE Online added
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 03:29:35 PM »
Guess the trolls got tired of going into individual servers and screwing things up for people. The figured out how to annoy more people at once.

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Re: The "Hacked" Club - Update: Minecraft, League of Legends, and EVE Online added
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 04:08:14 PM »
[SMH]
This hacking insanity is getting ridiculous.

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Re: The "Hacked" Club - Update: Minecraft, League of Legends, and EVE Online added
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 06:04:13 PM »
Clearly, the mice have the edge now in this game.  The cats better get busy moving on to the next level, or we're all screwed in the long run.

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Re: The "Hacked" Club - Update: Minecraft, League of Legends, and EVE Online added
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 06:39:04 PM »
I just wonder if this hacking will happen to something on the PC as big as Steam.

If it does...lawsuits might be thrown by LOTS of users, I'd bet.

Imagine all the pissed users unable to download their back-log, unable to play MP online through their servers, unable to activates games, or God knows what-else... :(
Imagine all the user-names, passwords, e-mails, and credit cards that could get stolen...

It'd be HELL. :(

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Re: The "Hacked" Club - Update: Minecraft, League of Legends, and EVE Online added
« Reply #9 on: Friday, June 17, 2011, 02:58:31 PM »
Fucking hell.

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Re: The "Hacked" Club - Update: Minecraft, League of Legends, and EVE Online added
« Reply #10 on: Friday, June 17, 2011, 03:00:46 PM »
What the Hell is going? Is there some underground war brewing?


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Re: "Hacked" Club - Update: Facebook, Twitter, XBL,"Dating Sites", Bioware, Paypal
« Reply #12 on: Friday, June 17, 2011, 05:16:22 PM »
You forgot Xbox Live.  I was wondering when it was going to get to that.

Edit:  Looking a bit further, I keep finding comments like this one:

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The LulzSec people are trying to look like badasses by implying that the account information was taken from Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft, but third parties have verified that the 62,000 accounts all came from a single, poorly secured forum website for writers.

If so, no need to panic yet.  Apparently, passwords obtained this way were tried on XBL, and some worked (because people tend to use the same password on different accounts).  I need to look further, but this take seems likely correct.

Edit 2:  Yeah, that is correct.  Update to the same story D linked:

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Update: Microsoft has released a statement, which states that Xbox Live was not compromised to the best of Microsoft's knowledge, and the logins/passwords were released at random, with people encouraged to try said information on services like Xbox Live (among others). "This group appears to have posted a list of thousands of potential email addresses and passwords, and encouraged users to try them across various online sites like Xbox Live in the event one of the users happens to use the same password and email address combination. At this time we do not have any evidence Xbox Live has been compromised. However we take the security of our service seriously and work on an ongoing basis to improve it against evolving threats."
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Re: "Hacked" Club - Update: Facebook, Twitter, XBL,"Dating Sites", Bioware, Paypal
« Reply #13 on: Friday, June 17, 2011, 05:22:48 PM »
Wow, this is crazy.

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Re: "Hacked" Club - Update: Facebook, Twitter, XBL,"Dating Sites", Bioware, Paypal
« Reply #14 on: Saturday, June 18, 2011, 06:42:24 AM »
Thanks for the update, Cobra.
This is really crazy, STILL.
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Re: "Hacked" Club - Update: Facebook, Twitter, XBL,"Dating Sites", Bioware, Paypal
« Reply #15 on: Saturday, August 13, 2011, 08:30:00 AM »
BethSoft's Forums got hacked again.

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Please Read! August 12, 2011

We have identified a potential breach of our forum user database that occurred Friday morning, Aug 12. We have reset your forum password as a precaution, in the event that any encrypted forum user passwords were compromised.

When you next try to login to the forums, your old password will not work. Click the I've forgotten my password link above, underneath the login boxes, and follow the steps to setup a new password for your account.

We recommend you do not use your old password or a password you have used for other sites. Further, if your old forum password was used for any other online purposes, we recommend changing the password on those accounts as well.

You will also receive an email with this information, sent to the email address you registered with on the forums.