Hack Attempts Against Bethesda's Websites

(badman) #1

A new story entry has been added:
[drupal=826]Hack Attempts Against Bethesda’s Websites[/drupal]

This past weekend, Bethesda’s web presence was the focus of an attempted intrusion by hackers - targets of this attack may include Bethesda’s own community forums, as well as the Brink statistics site. Bethesda have just released a statement addressing the situation, including a few precautions you should be taking as soon as possible if you have an account on any of Bethesda’s web sites:
Over the past weekend, a hacker group attempted an unlawful intrusion of our websites to gain access to data. We believe we have taken appropriate action to protect our data against these attacks. While no personal financial information or credit card data was obtained, the hackers may have gained access to some user names, email addresses, and/or passwords. As a precaution, we recommend that all our fans immediately change passwords on all our sites - including our community forums and the statistics site we maintain for Brink players.

If your username/email address/password is similar to what you use on other sites, we recommend changing the password at those sites as well. As we don’t know what further plans the hackers may have, we suggest that you keep an eye out for suspicious emails and account activity.

We regret any inconvenience that these attacks on us cause for you. These attacks will be evaluated to determine if there are any additional protections we might take that would be prudent.
Click here to read the original statement on Bethesda’s blog.

(Zanchile) #2

son of a bitch

(wolfnemesis75) #3

What is with all these hacks on everything from PBS to Sony and now Bethesda? If times weren’t hard enough already. These are dark times indeed.

(zenstar) #4

But… but… but… why?
Is the time and effort really worth what you got? Surely there are more deserving targets out there?
(Not that I condone hacking but if they’re going to do it at least go hack a douche)

(Kratos) #5

Wait a minute how do we know this is the real Badman posting! JK

(sithhappens) #6

lovely hey hackers if your reading this get a life your not really that impresive, pathetic yes what are you tring to prove that you can hack into a companys system so it cost them lost revenue so they lay off more people and lose more sales bravo good point freaking a$$holes!!!

(Darksider) #7

[QUOTE=zenstar;338209]But… but… but… why?
Is the time and effort really worth what you got? Surely there are more deserving targets out there?
(Not that I condone hacking but if they’re going to do it at least go hack a douche)[/QUOTE]

No one deserves to be targeted period, these attack are just moronic and just for ego/e-peen brags by no lifers.

(zenstar) #8

I agree. But they’re going to target someone because they’re not stopping (they think what they’re doing is right or they’re sociopaths or they just don’t care about the consequences) and I’d just wish they wouldn’t target completely innocent targets…
Go reveal some mafia money laundering website or something ffs! Leave game forums alone.

(Darksider) #9

[QUOTE=zenstar;338233]I agree. But they’re going to target someone because they’re not stopping (they think what they’re doing is right or they’re sociopaths or they just don’t care about the consequences) and I’d just wish they wouldn’t target completely innocent targets…
Go reveal some mafia money laundering website or something ffs! Leave game forums alone.[/QUOTE]

After your mafia quote, I now change my comment to yes some do deserved to be hack, lol.

(trigg3r) #10

i would change my password at the bethseda forums but i dont remember what it was :tongue:

(Slade05) #11

I really like that nolife “argument”. Care to prove with something other than usual bleating?

(Jimmy James) #12

Seeing as how I’m still waiting for them to implement the Brink stats for the PC I never bothered to make an account on Bethesda’s forums. Laziness FTW!

-JJ

(Breo) #13

Put them together with the anonymous geeks in jail :cool:

(to_few) #14

A was thinking im smugg not caring bout stats site so never bothered
But if it just takes your Bethesda account then just as well i changed every password
from sites i use, im fussy so its small amyways.
For those not sure where to start and use Firefox, open up your Options tab and look through
it for saved password, even i got a wee fright :tongue:

I noticed Bethesda keeps alot of diffrent IDs, ie: Facebook, Xbox, PSN, Steam.
Very rich pickings

(trigg3r) #15

3 new tweets lols

LulzSec
Bethesda, we broke into your site over two months ago. We’ve had all of your Brink users for weeks. Please fix your junk, thanks! :slight_smile:

LulzSec
We’re going to release lots of Bethesda/ZeniMax data today - however we might not release their 200,000+ users as we love Call of Cthulhu.

LulzSec
Bethesda, give everyone more info on Skyrim and we’ll keep the user database to ourselves. However we are going to embarrass you anyway. :smiley:

(Mad Hatter) #16

Surely you’re not going to defend malicious hackers? Especially hackers that target gaming companies?

(Slade05) #17

Of course I am, cuz that`s what Internet Black Knights do after all.

(AnthonyDa) #18

Will the stats site for BRINK stop storing plain password now?

(Krallis) #19

I dont understand… why hack Beth :frowning:
Sure theyre games are a bit buggy but…I cant see why they would.

(mortis) #20

[sarcasm]It sure is great that today’s hackers spend their time engaged in the noble pursuit of harassing gamers instead of exposing government corruption, or something like that.[/sarcasm]. Congratulations LulzSec on proving that you can grab headlines while still completely failing to do some good in the world with your talents. Time well spent, that was…