Xbox Live Breached?

If you bought FIFA 2011 or 2012 then watch out, since certain Xbox Live accounts which have played those titles are apparently "being accessed while their Xbox is off, having all points on the account spent, and then having someone attempt to purchase more points from the credit card on file, before moving to the next account".  Many people have reported upwards of $100 or more of loss through the spending of points on DLC and other items.  Microsoft is currently locking down affected accounts for 25 days until further notice, because it's not like people had anything to do anyways.

Microsoft released the following statement, and while they say they have "no evidence" this is clearly happening to people around the Xbox community.

We do not have any evidence the Xbox LIVE service has been compromised. We take the security of our service seriously and work on an ongoing basis to improve it against evolving threats. However, a limited number of members have contacted us regarding unauthorized access to their accounts by outside individuals. We are working with our impacted members directly to resolve any unauthorized changes to their accounts. As always, we highly recommend our members follow the Xbox LIVE Account Security guidance provided at www.xbox.com/security to protect your account.

Nintendo of America Server Hacked...For Fun...Yep...

Looks like it's an all out war for for hackers going against big name companies since Sony had gotten hacked. Next big company in line? Nintendo. Why, I don't know, but this is just getting out of hand.

GameSpot has reported that Nintendo had confirmed to the Associated Press that the servers were "unlawfully accessed recently". The bright side? No user information had been taken, as confirmed by Nintendo, in reply to GameSpot's report.. The hacker group LulzSec had also taken information from Sony Pictures' official website - going up to 1 million user information stolen.

LulzSec on the other hand said that hacking Nintendo of America was just for "the lulz" and that there was no harm in doing it. "We're not targeting Nintendo. We like the N64 too much; we sincerely hope Nintendo plugs the gap."

I don't know what's up with all these hacking occurences, but as long as E3 gains more attention than all of this, this'll be nothing more than just a small thing that anyone will forget soon.

Deus Ex and Eidos Websites Have Been Breached

Looks like the innocent aren't catching a break, especially with recent hackers. Now it seems like anyone could be a target in the game industry for whatever reason. Eidos's site and Deus Ex's official site have been hacked and leaving the message, as pictured above, with the statment "Owned by Chippy1337". Joystiq reports that a former Washington Post reporter, Brian Krebs, has gotten his hands from IRC Chat logs from the hacker group who have compromised users' information.

Square-Enix, owner of Eidos Interactive, has released a statement for the unfortunate event.

Square Enix can confirm a group of hackers gained access to parts of our Eidosmontreal.com website as well as two of our product sites. We immediately took the sites offline to assess how this had happened and what had been accessed, then took further measures to increase the security of these and all of our websites, before allowing the sites to go live again. Eidosmontreal.com does not hold any credit card information or code data, however there are resumes which are submitted to the website by people interested in jobs at the studio. Regrettably up to 350 of these resumes may have been accessed, and we are in the process of writing to each of the individuals who may have been affected to offer our sincere apologies for this situation. In addition, we have also discovered that up to 25,000 email addresses were obtained as a result of this breach. These email addresses are not linked to any additional personal information. They were site registration email addresses provided to us for users to receive product information updates. No dissemination or misappropriation of any other personal information has been identified at this point. We take the security of our websites extremely seriously and employ strict measures, which we test regularly, to guard against this sort of incident.

It's rather unfortunate with all of these hacker events going on, but we're just going to have to move on and change every little piece of our personal information.

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