3 arrested in Sony Hack

**bigBonehead** · June 10th, 2011, 09:03 AM

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/te...k.html?_r=1&hp

**GroundZero3** · June 10th, 2011, 09:09 AM

Moved to the security section

**ShyguyXPC** · June 10th, 2011, 09:12 AM

I actually have to congratulate those guys, they allowed me to get 2 free games for my PSP from Sony thanks to their activities,

(only personal info in my PSN account was my old deactivated Debit card info, and my email address really, so no real concerns from my end on the whole hacking thing, just an inconvenience)

**GroundZero3** · June 11th, 2011, 12:43 PM

Twitter

This is the person(s) twitter account that is doing all the damage.

**ShyguyXPC** · June 11th, 2011, 12:54 PM

Add to all this Sony hacking I had gotten an email notice yesterday that the Codemasters Website and various Databases/servers associated with Dirt 3 Activation codes, and some other parts like the Codemasters store, had gotten hacked as well. Though they do all their transactions via other sites/parties, so any fund transactions and associated accounts to transactions were safe, but Email's and other various info was possibly stolen.

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.

**ShyguyXPC** · June 11th, 2011, 12:55 PM

wonder if its part of the same bunch of douche bags behind the Sony Hacking?

**GroundZero3** · June 11th, 2011, 12:55 PM

If you look over the password list they posted a lot of them are the same password that is used for multiple services. Something everyone should be aware about!