Player information swiped in hack of Ubisoft system

Player information swiped in hack of Ubisoft system

 

[caption id="attachment_5859" align="alignnone" width="400"] (The Ubisoft display at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, California, on June 12, 2013. Videogame titan Ubisoft on Tuesday warned that hackers swiped names, email addresses and other information about users of its online gaming community. (FILE PHOTO AFP))[/caption]

 

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Videogame titan Ubisoft on Tuesday warned that hackers swiped names, email addresses and other information about users of its online gaming community.

 

"We recently found that one of our websites was exploited to gain unauthorised access to some of our online systems," the France-based company said in a message to members of its Uplay service.

 

"We learned that data had been illegally accessed from our account database, including user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords."

 

Ubisoft said that it sealed the breach to its system and that no credit card or other payment information was stolen because there was none kept in the computer system.

 

Ubisoft urged players to change their passwords.

 

(The Straits Times, 3 July 2013)