Met alle perikelen rondom het PlayStation Network staat het hacken de laatste tijd veelvuldig in het nieuws, helaas blijkt nu dat ook dat de websites van Eidos en Deus Ex slachtoffer zijn geworden.
Beide websites zijn afgelopen woensdag gehackt, waarbij zowel 9.000 curricula vitae's en informatie van 80.000 geregistreerde gebruikers zijn gestolen. Hiernaast is tevens de broncode van de website gestolen, waarbij er zelfs geruchten op gaan dat dat de broncode van Deus Ex: Human Revolution is buit gemaakt. De kans hierop is echter klein aangezien het ongebruikelijk is om deze broncode op een publiekelijke website te bewaren.
De schuldige vinger wordt ook nu naar de hackersgroep Anonymous gewezen, echter verwijzen zij naar een splintergroepering die ze onlangs zelf aanvielen. Aan anonieme bron laat echter weten dat dat het bovenstaande gebruikelijk is bij hackers:
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“This is how those guys roll: One day they work together, the next they war. They drop dox [information] on each other like it’s a game. Its psychotic behavior like I have never seen. It’s like they hate each other but will work together on certain ops if it suits them, but then might turn on each other in the end … and then laugh it off.”
[Upd.] Square Enix heeft inmiddels een officiële reactie gegeven welke hieronder te lezen is:
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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.
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