Epic Games Forums Hacked, Change Your Passwords

The latest victim in mass targeted hacking is the forums from Ballsy Games, the folks behind Unreal Tournament and the gorgeous Unreal Engine.

Unreal Engine creator, Epic Games, says unauthorized access was obtained by intruders, turns off the forums temporarily.

You may have already received the email from Epic Games asserting that someone gained unauthorized access to their servers hosting the forum. If you accept, so just remain calm as they're working hard to pinpoint exactly what happened. Change your password as shortly as possible.

In the email they said that someone seemed to take gained access to usernames, passwords, birth dates and email addresses. Information technology'south currently unknown how passwords were stored, nonetheless, just hopefully those were stored hashed and lightly salted for skilful mensurate. Regardless, exist sure to change your password as soon as possible (one time the forums are up again) and modify whatever passwords that are the same as the one used for Epic Forums. You shouldn't be reusing passwords anyway...

While they're investigating the source of the intrusion, the forums are offline and they warn you lot to be on the lookout for any new phishing attempts that come up your way as a effect. You never know what kind of weird things people can contrive just based on the data stolen.

This is also an opportunity to get a countersign manager to make sure that all passwords are unique for every website and awarding you utilise. Obviously if they were stored in the clear, then it'south compromised, but so would other important sites if you shared. So utilize a password managing director to minimize harm!

Source: https://wccftech.com/epic-games-forums-hacked-change-passwords/

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