Epic Games forums hacked anew, thousands of fanatic details exposed
The hackers are at it gone once again! The Epic Games forums have been breached anew wherein sponsorship relating to again 800,000 enthusiast accounts has been stolen by hackers from online forums recommend Epic Games, once other time half a million from Unreal Engine and Unreal Tournaments forums.
Epic Gamesthe company at the in the in the back Unreal Tournament and game keep happening front tool Unreal Engineacknowledged the hack in a proclamation in this area the subject of the order of its website. The violence was carried out almost August 11, according to breach notification site LeakedSource which obtained a copy of the database.
According to ZDNet, the hackers allegedly exploited a known SQL injection vulnerability residing in an pass fable of the vBulletin forum software, which allows them to profit admission to the full database. The mysterious hacker has stolen data from hundreds of thousands of forum accounts including usernames, scrambled passwords, email addresses, IP addresses, birth dates, private messages and posts, fanatic disagreement data. It plus late buildup that Facebook entry tokens for users who signed in considering their social account were with stolen. Recent hacks involving Ubuntu, Dota 2, and Canadian media company VerticalScope, which exposed 45 million fanatic accounts, moreover full of cartoon unpatched, older versions of vBulletin.
A confirmation about the data breach was published upon the Unreal Engine forum website:
We believe a recent Unreal Engine and Unreal Tournament forum compromise revealed email addresses and subsidiary data entered into the forums, but no passwords in any form, neither salted, hashed, nor plaintext. While the data contained in the vBulletin account databases for these forums were leaked, the passwords for user accounts are stored elsewhere. These forums remain online and no passwords showing off to be reset.
Also, we apportion on a compromise of our legacy forums covering Infinity Blade, UDK, previous Unreal Tournament games, and archived Gears of War forums revealed email addresses, salted hashed passwords and new data entered into the forums. If you have been lithe upon these forums back July 2015, we set sights on you modify your password upon any site where you use the same password.
We dont meet the expense of that added Epic linked forums were affected, including Paragon, Fortnite, Shadow Complex, and SpyJinx.
We apologize for the inconvenience this causes everyone and well have the funds for updates as we learn more.
This is not the first era that Epic Games has suffered a data breach. Last year, the gaming company was the victim of the hackers that stole thousands of accounts data.