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Hackers attack Bethesda

Posted Jun 13, 2011 at 11:14PM EST by Ryan F.

Listed in: News Tags: Bethesda, Codemasters, Epic Games, Hackers, Nintendo, PlayStation Network

Bethesda Softworks, the studio behind the Fallout series and the recently released Brink, has confirmed on Monday that they are the latest victim of a hacking attempt last weekend and warned its users that hackers may have stolen some personal data.

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"Over the past weekend, a hacker group attempted an unlawful intrusion of our websites to gain access to data," the studio said in a blog post. "We believe we have taken appropriate action to protect our data against these attacks. While no personal financial information or credit card data was obtained, the hackers may have gained access to some user names, email addresses, and/or passwords. As a precaution, we recommend that all our fans immediately change passwords on all our sites — including our community forums, statistics site for Brink, and here on the blog.

"If your username/email address/password is similar to what you use on other sites, we recommend changing the password at those sites as well. As we don’t know what further plans the hackers may have, we suggest that you keep an eye out for suspicious emails and account activity.

"We regret any inconvenience that these attacks on us cause for you," Bethesada said. "These attacks will be evaluated to determine if there are any additional protections we might take that would be prudent."

This come on the heels of the recent cyber atack that crippled Sony, Codemasters, Nintendo UK and the recent attack on Epic Games.

Via [Beth Blog]

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please dont even bother asking most of those ignorant child why those hackers are so ridiculous with their stupid act they need to stop i didn't support them at all when they hacked sony or anyone and i wont support them or ever think what they are doing now is for a "cause" or justified foolish people doing it for their ambition and ignorant people being happy with it and supporting them

-1 # ignorance is bliss — Narmi 2011-06-15 11:18

is the foolish and ignorant one here, you posted an entire fuckin paragraph without any periods or commas, that was a retard's run on sentence... your so stupid geohot hacked PS3, trust me he's not hacking bethesda so dont act like its all sony hackers you queer

+1 # ... — Lightsource 2011-06-14 02:07

You know, I could see how Sony had made themselves a target by being what I would call overly zealous in their case against Goerge Hotz.

But this is just getting silly. This is no longer a case of one group versus another, this is just mean-spirited.

# RE: Hackers attack Bethesda — Elmer The One 2011-06-14 02:13

It was Lulzsec, they've got the personal information of about 200k+ people, but won't release it

# RE: Hackers attack Bethesda — AssassinXCV 2011-06-14 02:13

How many people still do not understand that not all hackers do things for the same reason? Some are bad, some are one the consumer's side. The hackers that hacked the PSN are different than Anonymous.

# RE: Hackers attack Bethesda — dontbedaft 2011-06-14 07:37

You cant blame the whole community for something like this. The homebrewers had NOTHING to do with this. And anonymous doesn't have any clear or concise "direction". These are coordinated attacks for information.

Why would anonymous bother attacking Bethesda? They barely use disc protection. Seems to me the business with Sony has made anonymous a scape goat. It has also made glory seekers start testing the security of other high profile gaming companies.

And idiots are now all coming out of the wood work blaming "hackers" and parading their personal bullshit causes on the net.

oh noes the hackers are going to get you!

tch ...pansies.

# RE: Hackers attack Bethesda — ChozoLore 2011-06-14 02:53

To hell with it all. It's time to put together a rag-tag team of 80's action hero misfits and tackle the hackers straight on. LOL, I kid, but not Bethesda guys, come now. I think this has gone far enough. It was funny when it happen to Sony. Deserved against Apple and the government, but now it's sad. Enough is enough.

# RE: Hackers attack Bethesda — Thevirgoprince 2011-06-14 04:00

All hackers should die

+1 # RE: Hackers attack Bethesda — But Fukir 2011-06-14 05:03

Lol.

Cloud gaming is the future.

# RE: Hackers attack Bethesda — NOTORIOUS 2011-06-14 05:21

Attacking Bethesda. I am dissapoint.

+1 # RE: Hackers attack Bethesda — Andy Mitchell 2011-06-14 09:11

And this is the exact reason hackers get a bad name.

Hacking a console open to allow us to do what we want with it (except of course pirate games), I can live with.

But senselessly hacking every company in the games industry just for the fun of it is really starting to get childish now.

I hope these asshats get caught.

# RE: Hackers attack Bethesda — lordrand11 2011-06-14 12:06

They must have disliked Brink that much....

# RE: Hackers attack Bethesda — LiquidBlood510 2011-06-14 12:41

When is the law gonna realize that there going after gaming company's instead of platforms now. Instead of going for one system (Sony) go after developer's. You are going maybe to get more information than platforms.

If the law wanted to catch them honestly than they could just by sending something to each developer. To trace them but nope they don't care really i guess

# RE: Hackers attack Bethesda — Linhat 2011-06-14 13:03

if you guys want to stop them then http://lulzsecurity.com/ is where to go.....im pissed at them. seriously.

# RE: Hackers attack Bethesda — Azariel_z 2011-06-15 03:24

these are not hackersd we usually support, maybe a big corporation hired them to turn the table / public against hackers like anonymous.. that ran against Sony.

# well hey — skeetz 2011-06-17 19:16

their website clearly states that all they are trying to do is beef up other companies security by showing them that they have flaws in their "current" security. if they were able to hack it it wasn't a good security in the first place so these companies will have to try to make their security better. and p.s they do it for the LULZ ☻

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