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[Heliman]

FORM UP, TEAM CESZLUL!

[Jack A T]

Bit more news about the Distribute.IT hack: it did a whole lot of damage.  4800 sites were completely destroyed, with no chance of recovery, with four servers destroyed completely.  This was definitely a very malicious attack.

[Jack A T]

Lulzsec update: Lulzsec just leaked a bunch of Arizona law enforcement documents.

[Bdthemag]

Lulzsec update: Lulzsec just leaked a bunch of Arizona law enforcement documents.

Finally Lulzsec does something good, atleast in my opinion. Oh look Lulzsec is on the Daily Show.

[olemars]

Just got this in my mailbox:

We recently learned that hackers gained unauthorized access to the decade-old BioWare server system supporting the Neverwinter Nights forums. We immediately took appropriate steps to protect our consumers’ data and launched a thorough ongoing evaluation of the breach. We have determined that no credit card data was compromised from the servers, nor did we ever have or store sensitive data like social security numbers. Our investigation shows that information such as user names, encrypted passwords, email addresses, mailing addresses, names, phone numbers, CD keys and birth dates from these forum accounts on the system may have been compromised, as well as other information (if any) that you may have associated with your EA Account. In an abundance of caution, we have changed your password to ensure account security. Please visit this <snip> to reset your password immediately.

If your link has expired, click here to generate a new email.

We take the security of your information very seriously and regret any inconvenience this may have caused you. If your username, email address and/or password on your EA account are similar to those you use on other sites, we recommend changing the password at those sites as well. We advise all of our fans to always be aware of any suspicious emails or account activity and report any suspicious emails and account activity to Customer Support at 1-877-357-6007.

If you have questions, please visit our FAQ at http://support.ea.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5367/ or contact Customer Support at the phone number above.

Aaryn Flynn
Studio GM, BioWare Edmonton
VP, Electronic Arts

I can't remember ever signing up for anything BioWare though.

[optimumtact]

We have determined that no credit card data was compromised from the servers, nor did we ever have or store sensitive data like social security numbers. Our investigation shows that information such as user names, encrypted passwords, email addresses, mailing addresses, names, phone numbers, CD keys and birth dates from these forum accounts on the system may have been compromised, as well as other information (if any) that you may have associated with your EA Account.

Although I can understand where they're coming from here, I wish that they would reduce the spin in these kinds of releases. I think it is disingenuous of them to claim that no sensitive data was stored on the server when the majority of users will reuse usernames, passwords and email addresses across many sites. Futhermore things like a mailing address, your name, phone numbers and your birthdate are all what I would consider sensitive data.

It would greatly improve such companies standings in my eyes if they just were like, "yep, we were breached and your data was stolen. We're sorry and we are working to fix the security holes." (all couched in nice PR terms of course).

[Virex]

Just got this in my mailbox:

We recently learned that hackers gained unauthorized access to the decade-old BioWare server system supporting the Neverwinter Nights forums. We immediately took appropriate steps to protect our consumers’ data and launched a thorough ongoing evaluation of the breach. We have determined that no credit card data was compromised from the servers, nor did we ever have or store sensitive data like social security numbers. Our investigation shows that information such as user names, encrypted passwords, email addresses, mailing addresses, names, phone numbers, CD keys and birth dates from these forum accounts on the system may have been compromised, as well as other information (if any) that you may have associated with your EA Account. In an abundance of caution, we have changed your password to ensure account security. Please visit this <snip> to reset your password immediately.

If your link has expired, click here to generate a new email.

We take the security of your information very seriously and regret any inconvenience this may have caused you. If your username, email address and/or password on your EA account are similar to those you use on other sites, we recommend changing the password at those sites as well. We advise all of our fans to always be aware of any suspicious emails or account activity and report any suspicious emails and account activity to Customer Support at 1-877-357-6007.

If you have questions, please visit our FAQ at http://support.ea.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5367/ or contact Customer Support at the phone number above.

Aaryn Flynn
Studio GM, BioWare Edmonton
VP, Electronic Arts

I can't remember ever signing up for anything BioWare though.

Did you double-check the e-mail address? Someone may be trying to use the recent wave of hackings as a cover for a phising expedition.

[Aqizzar]

Lulzsec update: Lulzsec just leaked a bunch of Arizona law enforcement documents.

Relevant to my interests.  I have to wonder about some of those emails in there, especially the ones in Cruise Control.  One would think that internal law enforcement communication, no matter how "personal", would still be typed in a professional air.

[Sir Finkus]

I'm getting tired of getting emails from various companies telling me they've been hacked, but this is still kind of fun to watch.  Just as a reminder, everyone should use different passwords for each site they sign up for.  If this is unrealistic (understandable) at least use a different one for your email and any online banking you do.  Secure passwords should not be dictionary words, and toss in some symbols, upper case letters, and numbers to make them harder to brute force.  The longer the better, and I'm a bit believer in passphrases.

[olemars]

Although I can understand where they're coming from here, I wish that they would reduce the spin in these kinds of releases. I think it is disingenuous of them to claim that no sensitive data was stored on the server when the majority of users will reuse usernames, passwords and email addresses across many sites. Futhermore things like a mailing address, your name, phone numbers and your birthdate are all what I would consider sensitive data.

It would greatly improve such companies standings in my eyes if they just were like, "yep, we were breached and your data was stolen. We're sorry and we are working to fix the security holes." (all couched in nice PR terms of course).

"Sensitive Data" is a legalese term for certain personal information that's protected by law. This is why they always mention it.

Did you double-check the e-mail address? Someone may be trying to use the recent wave of hackings as a cover for a phising expedition.

The mail originates from the em.ea.com domain, the links all go to addresses on www.ea.com, and the mail is mentioned at various gaming news sites, so it seems legit. Still can't remember ever creating an account at any Neverwinter Nights forum or even looking at one.

[Bauglir]

From what I can gather, they apparently fired a mass email off to everyone who has an EA account - not just something related to Neverwinter Nights.

[Jimlad11]

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[Virex]

Edit: After checking the forums, Curse say it was a "Critical Dual Hardware Failure". Maybe I was just jumping to conclusions.

In other words, someone "format c:\"'ed our servers

[freeformschooler]

Thanks to lulzsec, I now have different passwords for everything I can think of.

Mincraft wiki,

I wondered about that. It's been out for DAYS. I've had to rely on friends for Minecraft related info!

[alway]

List updated.