Ubisoft Game Studio - Hacked

The game developer and publisher Ubisoft has dropped for the second time this year victims of hacker attacks. So that the attacker can gain access to the customer database. Ubisoft because it encourages customers to change their passwords - in particular, they must use the same password elsewhere.

Hackers attack

In an e-mail, the company told users that the database has been compromised by their names, email addresses and "encrypted password". According to Ubisoft, but the attacker does not pay Data: "Please note that no personal payment information stored on Ubisoft, so your credit and credit card information is not disclosed by this intrusion."

Due to various inconsistencies are receiving this email in part to phishing attempts. Links are provided for security does not work, reset passwords and initially caused problems. On top of that Ubisoft has announced the regulatory game player as a hacker penetrated a third party system.

Studio Ubiblog match official also informed about the incident and insisted that his knowledge there was no request for personal information such as phone numbers and home addresses. The company is currently investigating the matter together with the competent authorities and external security experts. It remains the "security" with specific information as to exploit the weakness returned. Remain unanswered, when and how the attack happened. Explicit request to get in touch with hash encryption algorithm - and whether hashing is provided with Salt - remain unanswered.

It was only in April of this year Ubisoft should give unauthorized access to its Uplay network. Already in June 2012 found Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy vulnerability in Uplay service. Security firm Symantec confirmed that hackers so they can master the customer PC. Ubisoft fixed the problem with the patch and denied the allegations that there has been a weak point in deliberately placed rootkit.

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