Codemasters website breached

[Dowly]

Just got this email, so just a FYI:

Important information regarding your account



Dear valued Codemasters customer,

On Friday 3rd June, unauthorised entry was gained to our Codemasters.com website. As soon as the intrusion was detected, we immediately took codemasters.com and associated web services offline in order to prevent any further intrusion.

During the days since the attack we have conducted a thorough investigation in order to ascertain the extent and scope of the breach and have regrettably discovered that the intruder was able to gain access to the following:

Codemasters.com website

Access to the Codemasters corporate website and sub-domains.

DiRT 3 VIP code redemption page

Access to the DiRT 3 VIP code redemption page.

The Codemasters EStore

We believe the following have been compromised: Customer names and addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, encrypted passwords and order history. Please note that no personal payment information was stored with Codemasters as we use external payment providers, meaning your payment details were not at risk from this intrusion.

Codemasters CodeM database

Members' names, usernames, screen names, email addresses, date of birth, encrypted passwords, newsletter preferences, any biographies entered by users, details of last site activity, IP addresses and Xbox Live Gamertags are all believed to have been compromised.

Whilst we do not have confirmation that any of this data was actually downloaded onto an external device, we have to assume that, as access was gained, all of these details were compromised and/or stolen.

The Codemasters.com website will remain offline for the foreseeable future with all Codemasters.com traffic re-directed to the Codemasters Facebook page instead. A new website will launch later in the year.

Advice

For your security, in the first instance we advise you to change any passwords you have associated with other Codemasters accounts. If you use the same login information for other sites, you should change that information too. Furthermore, be extra cautious of potential scams, via email, phone, or post that ask you for personal or sensitive information. Please note that Codemasters will never ask you for any payment data such as credit card numbers or bank account details, nor will Codemasters ask you for passwords or other personal identifying data. Be aware too of fraudulent emails that may outwardly appear to be from Codemasters with links inviting you to visit websites. The safest way to visit your favourite websites is always by typing in the address manually into the address bar of your browser.

Unfortunately, Codemasters is the latest victim in on-going targeted attacks against numerous game companies. We assure you that we are doing everything within our legal means to track down the perpetrators and take action to the full extent of the law.

We apologise for this incident and regret any inconvenience caused.

We are contacting all customers who may have been affected directly.

Should you have any concerns or wish to speak to a member of our Customer Services team, please email them at custservice@codemasters.com.

[Herr-Berbunch]

At least no card details this time!

[ajrimmer42]

what is it with everybody getting hacked all of a sudden? First Sony, then Nintendo (yep, really. They just didn't feel the need to tell anyone that their user's details had been stolen) and now this?

Some people have wayyy too much time on their hands.

[CCIP]

lulzsec, huh

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by CCIP

lulzsec, huh

What's what my money is on. They warned the NHS the other day of a security flaw in their networks but didn't attack them.

[elephantium]

Originally Posted by ajrimmer42

what is it with everybody getting hacked all of a sudden? First Sony, then Nintendo (yep, really. They just didn't feel the need to tell anyone that their user's details had been stolen) and now this?

Some people have wayyy too much time on their hands.

Quite a lot of people, really, given the economic disaster we've been wallowing in for, oh, pick a timespan. Anything over "a year" is probably fair game.

[Castout]

State sponsored attack is still the gravest threat even to individuals not just institutions.

[Arclight]

Add Epic to the list: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011...-games-hacked/

Some folk have been playing Uplink too much.

*aaand Bethesda: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011...-to-be-leaked/

[Castout]

I received similar emails from Bioware and SEGA. They too have been breached. The internet is a wild west now.

No code of conduct. It is only time until internet cold war is waged. No I don't mean like this. I mean escalation where counter attack is done almost instantaneously.

Quite dangerous business.

[Spike88]

Still think hackers should have their brains fried.
Mind you in this scene these people are being counter hacked and then have their brains fried, but there is a scene where a hacker gets fried.