Wednesday, August 24th 2016
Epic Games Forums Hacked; Over 800,000 Passwords Stolen
The official discussion board for Epic Games, frequented by developers and gamers of Unreal Engine, "Unreal Tournament," and soon "Paragon," was hacked, exposing dates of birth, IP addresses, registration dates, registration e-mail addresses, and allegedly passwords, of over 800,000 users, reports The Hacker News. The hackers reportedly got their hands on the data by exploiting a vulnerability in the outdated version of vBulletin that Epic Games uses.
Epic Games, however, denies that the hackers got their hands on passwords. "We believe a recent Unreal Engine and Unreal Tournament forum compromise revealed email addresses and other data entered into the forums, but no passwords in any form, neither salted, hashed, nor plaintext," the company stated. ZDNet reports that a larger portion of the vBulletin database, which includes user posts and private-messages, could also have been stolen.
Source:
The Hacker News
Epic Games, however, denies that the hackers got their hands on passwords. "We believe a recent Unreal Engine and Unreal Tournament forum compromise revealed email addresses and other data entered into the forums, but no passwords in any form, neither salted, hashed, nor plaintext," the company stated. ZDNet reports that a larger portion of the vBulletin database, which includes user posts and private-messages, could also have been stolen.
23 Comments on Epic Games Forums Hacked; Over 800,000 Passwords Stolen
shit just hit the fan
It was MS! Punishing Tim Sweeney for his "outrageous" claims.
V-bulletin is more advanced compared to other forum software, and they actually salt their passwords making it harder to crack compared to MD5 (which is obsolete these days).
If a hacker has access to alot of GPU's it might be possible to unsalt those passwords and get a nice 800.000 looking list of user passwords, which in combine can be used with different accounts such as email or facebook.
Please, never have one and the same password for all your things on the net.
Google is watching and recording. ;)
I always delete mine, as every little bit helps,
They're here to help you.