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It continues: Bioware gets hacked |
Listed in: News, Genre Tags: BioWare, Electronic Arts, hacks
Bioware has become the latest victim of an increasing unlawful attacks that particularly targets gaming companies
Electronic Arts, parent company of BioWare has confirmed the latest security breach. According to the statement issued by the company, a "very small percentage of total users" were affected by the unlawful intrusion.
"The data breach was extremely limited," reveals EA. "The only server system known to have been affected by the unauthorized attack was that associated with BioWare Edmonton’s Neverwinter Nights forums. Approximately 18,000 accounts were affected—a very small percentage of total users."
The unauthorized intrusion to the server system associated with the Neverwinter Nights forum happened on June 14, which according to EA, they "quickly assessed the exposure," communicated to fans and re-issued accounts" they believed may have been compromised.
"We acted immediately to secure the server system associated with Bioware Edmonton’s Neverwinter Nights forums. We also launched an ongoing evaluation of the seriousness of the breach. To further enhance security, we have disabled all legacy BioWare accounts that were affected, and reset the passwords of any EA Accounts that were affected. Emails have been sent to all affected users alerting them to the issue with instructions on how to change their passwords and/or create new accounts (as applicable)."
So why did this happened and what exactly was breached? Well, according to EA...
"The server system associated with the Neverwinter Nights forums was the target of a highly sophisticated and unlawful cyber attack. We have moved swiftly to secure your data, and are conducting further evaluations now.
"Account names, email addresses, passwords, country and birth dates may have been exposed. No credit card data was exposed and we have never collected Social Security numbers. If you linked your legacy Bioware account with an EA Account, then additional information that you associated with your EA Account (if any) may have been accessible as well. Such information could include your name, mailing address, billing address, language, game entitlements and games played, and other game-specific account information depending on your use of your EA Account."
EA suggest to contact their Customer Support at 1-866-543-5435 between the hours of 7am and 9pm CST if you have any concerns about your account. The latest breach follows a long list of game companies that have been targeted by hackers in recent weeks.
Via [EA support]
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I'm not a hacker and I could eventually get past Norton.
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I don't think you understand what a firewall does.
A firewall is designed to CONTROL access. Access that comes into a network as well as access that leaves the network. Lets say you have a website and nothing else. Therefor you setup your firewall to ALLOW access into port 80 (HTTP) and possibly 443 (HTTPS). Those are services that you ALLOW to come into your building. It doesn't matter if you have $50 firewall or a 5 MILLION dollar firewall, you are allowing those ports to come into your building.
The hackers would then take advantage of port 80 and/or 443 to get to your web service on your machine. Once you come in on a port...YOU ARE IN. What they are now hacking is your actual web server. At that point the firewall has nothing to do with it. The firewall is out of the picture.
Even if you put a software firewall on that computer it wouldn't matter because are already getting past that. BECAUSE YOU ALLOWED IT.
So what's the point of the firewall? In this case ONLY port 80 and 443 are open and if they setup the firewall properly then they can only access the webserver and nothing else in the building. So at least they can only grab usernames and passwords instead of all their accounting data as well.
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Sony had it coming, but Bioware? Come on now.
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Cats and dogs living together.....MASS HYSTERIA!!!
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This is a classic case of "Problem, reaction, solution". They cause a problem to incite a reaction then offer the Chinese style internet censorship/control as their solution. Look up the ProtectIP act, which will give the government the power to shut down any website they want.
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/06/lulz-security-claims-to-have-hacked-fbi-affiliated-website-.html
INSIDE JOB!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20069635-17/report-25-percent-of-u.s-hackers-are-fbi-informants/
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but please, don't touch R*!!!
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