Square Enix Hacked: Deus Ex and Tomb Raider Websites Attacked

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Richard Walker

Yet more hacking misery has emerged today, as hackers have broken into the websites for both Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Tomb Raider, making off with the emails of 25,000 customers who had registered for product updates in the process. The resumes of 350 Eidos Montreal employees might have been compromised too, with the hackers accessing the company's web servers.

"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," Square Enix confirmed in a statement. "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."

Both Eidosmontreal.com and Deusex.com were affected by the hack and Sophos security consultant Graham Cluley warned that these leaks could cause a number of issues. "With the e-mail there is a danger that gamers could be e-mailed by someone pretending to be from the company who gets them to click on a link or run some malicious software," he told BBC News. "The resumes are a blueprint for identity theft. They have everything that scammers want. The only thing missing is credit card information."

So try and stay vigilant, although Square Enix says that there's no evidence that information has been distributed by the hackers.

[Thanks, Nozza]

Comments
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  • And who says technology is a good thing eh? lol, pen and paper ftw
  • here we go again :( fuckers can't leave anything alone. these bastards are trying to bring the games industry down.
  • Hacker low-life nerds. I hope they forever live in their mom's basement.
  • #1 Could not agree more!
  • These people need to be tried in a court of law. Make an example out of them.
  • I wish they could find these a-holes and sentence them with major sentences (prison or money, both are good) Will set an example and finally leave the gaming industry alone....
  • Go hackers! its proof of poor security's!! atleast these hackers let people know they hacked the shit,. who knows whot other things have been hacked without us knowing,......
  • I think hacking of any kind should be 5 years in prison 250,000 dollar fine and your computer is monitered for the rest of your life, including weekly checks of your computer, if do anything more than check your email, your ass goes back to prison.
  • imagine these nerds doing a federal sentence.lol
  • Can't you hack something more meaningful like ooooh, Activision perhaps?
  • #7 Doesn't matter how hackproof you make security, hackers will always find a way around it. Even though Square now know they need to increase security on their website, it can hardly be justifed. These lowlifes need to be tracked down and thrown in prison for 10 years.
  • Find these scumbags and lock them the f#ck up already!
  • Frickin media world is coming to an end, it's bloody Die Hard 4.0 becoming a reality, I just wish these petty lowlife scrubbers would just electrocute themselves and leave the gaming industry alone!!!
  • why can't they just let things be...i mean, why hack this, for the sake of doing it? Come on, find something better to do.
  • This is starting to look like a sad trend.
  • i thaught hackers loved games. Why are they going at every one
  • I heard fox.com or foxnews.com or something like that got hacked as well.....geeez lay off hackers.
  • The sad thing there are a number of countries who turn a blind eye to hacking (I'm looking at you Russia, China, North Korea) and may even encourage it as long as it's against a non-local company or s forgein country. Also hacking other company servers is a way of stealing trade secrets - great form of corporate espionage - so it's not always computer nerds in their basements. Do governments like the U.S., France and Germany emit hackers? Yes,,, but they target foreign governments and terror networks because if a Watergate scandal occurred today from hacking - politicans would more than just resign...
  • @18: Sad but true :(. I just wish these bloody hackers would leave us alone!
  • its hackers vs gaming industry D:
  • @18 As a Russian gamer i apologize on behalf of the country. But since then there were many hits against piracy and there are developments to stop hackers more severely.
  • I thought it was the whole industry under attack, look out Microsoft and Nintendo most likely you're next
  • Lol it's on square enix, no big loss
  • Just thinking but why doesn't the companies hire a hacker to find the other hackers. At least then they can be taken to court.
  • Can someone delete #23's comment and slam the ban hammer on this troll? Saying things like that is nothing short of flame-baiting.
  • i think now everyone should be looking for those hackers, punish them hardly till they no longer can breath and finish them by a slow, painfull death.
  • @9 im with you. send them to a federal prison so that when they get out their ass can double as a subway tunnel. then they will be useful.
  • FFSmotherfuckinghackerpiecesofshit!
  • Haha. I hate square enix anyways, I couldn't care less. The last like 5 games they've released have been shit in my ass.
  • @7 They don't leave a note saying hi we hacked you and took this. They can tell if someone has hacked in.
  • What'a hell!!! Hey hackers, please attack the government, political, the big commercial companies that wants to enslave the customers, not the companies that wants us to have some fun!
  • @8 couldn't agree even more. Hackers are becoming like a disease spreading everywhere just like HIV or AIDS :/
  • Bring on skynet!
  • I agree with JROD0823 this iLOVEps3gurls fellow is a complete troll whos presence is not wanted in this community.
  • rip their eyes and cut their fingers, that's better than a court for those hackers
  • Anonymous again.....???
  • We got the point that you can hack when you did it to the ps3, but now your just taking the piss by hacking everything. i hope when they find you they broke every fucking bone in your body you stupid little fucking pricks
  • fucking hell.
  • c'mon hackers ps3 square enix next xbox then activision right
  • :( whats wrong with people...why cant they just go do something else with there spare time like beat off with a cactus??? im starting to lose faith in all games because of people like this:(...
  • Hope Microsoft gets obliterated by hackers.
  • Go for micrsoft. leave the japanese alone
  • First was SONY. Now is Square Enix. These hackers only attack Japanese Companies. => Pathetic Racist Bastards!
  • Come on hackers. I am a hacker, but for stuff like recovering MY OWN lost passwords or when I pirate games because they all got deleted when my hard drive crashes. I don't pirate games I sold or never bought, and I surely am not a fucking asshole wasting every one's time. I hack to fix issues, not to satisfy greed and annoy others. This kind of stuff is like a spider going up my back, I just wanna meet this hacker face-to-face and cut his freaking hand off.
  • After they find the hackers they should let everyone who owns a PS3, signed onto the sites and belongs to sony or square enix, five minutes alone with the hacker bastards, with the hackers chained up.
  • this is getting fucking ridiculous. i wonder if when they destroy every goddamn company on earth if they hackers will be sad that they don't have anything left to hack.
  • The max penalty 10 years is still not enough, they should be also marked for the rest of there life's.
  • yep that what you get when theres nothing good on tv. hackers are like sitting on their fat butt and go like: "what else is there do kill boredom? oh i know since my life is worse then a sewer rat lets mess with other people lives and at the same time i remain anonymous". fat low life cowards
  • ugh...! i´m started to hate really to the hackers in general before i was a comprehensive person but now i´m tired, thanks hackers, first PSN an now Square-Enix (and also Nintendo thanks to the hackers they ruin my fun in Mario Kart Wii online, so i moved to ModNation Racers, just for escape of them), *sigh* why they don´t use their knowledge for good and not for evil (hmm... sounds like a cliche Hollywood movie) and besides what they won? money? (hmmm... no), respect? (ha!.... no), ehhhh fame? (well maybe... but you no live of fame), in others words those morons ruined forever the description of what a hacker is.
  • No, What?, WHY!!!!
  • Cyber crimes need to be treated with FAR more seriousness than they are. Because of the sheer number of people being effected by hackers, like they do in most other criminal trials, courts need to take into account personal hardships and emotional distress into the sentences they give people convicted of cyber crimes. With everything from personal data being stolen, accounts of various things such as emails, personal files and so on being compromised the seriousness of these things need to be really looked into.
  • DIE DIE HACKERS!
  • Why would they bother with SE? What have they done to ))) anyone off?
  • This might be prove that Sony wasn't hacked because of the geohot case and or resentment of Sony. It's obvious that these hackers just want consumer info and that's it. Its all about money. I'm thinking that they are just looking for easy targets for the info and this may be a good sign that they won't attack Sony again because they already got what they wanted. It may also be that they are trying to bring the gaming industry down and we could also see a xbox live attacked sometime in the near future. But now it's just pure speculation.
  • Proof not prove
  • I guess people really want Kingdom Hearts III :P
  • Wtf is going on in this world we live in? i hope XBL get it in the neck soon, that will shut all the fanboys up and please leave our PSN alone! scrubs the lot of em.. hope they get caught and brought to justice.
  • Wow I wanna find these fuckers and kick them in the balls. This is ridiculous and the only thing they're going to accomplish is drive up the cost of games for all of us. Goddamn assholes, I hope they find them and put em away for years.
  • Come to me my children, and I will show you the end.
  • Come on... Give Japan a break
  • This is sort of good, but bad for gamers. Hopefully this will make people realize that cloud data storage is a bad idea and we need to not put so much trust in the internet to hold out personal information.
  • Wow hacking seems to be the new thing as of late. This is getting ridiculous.
  • hacking activion is suicide. the agency that deals with hackers ( they hire hackers and monitor there whole life who have illegaly hacked whatever), about a 1/4 to a 1/2 of there hackers work for activison, because of people hacking starcraft. by the way the hackers that are hired are generaly in the top 30 percentile (ex: top 30 of 100)but not all get hired and they only hire the top 30%. i have a friend (he's a big gamer) who hacks but more like to modify a gun in borderlands for example. he only hacks computer games but nothing to harm the game community or industry. he told me about them and activision. if you do something like what happen to sony or square enix they'll have they're own hackers to hunt them.
  • @#63 eldraco You speak of "Certified Ethical Hackers". And yes thats a real job title in which you can be certified as a legit Ethical hacker (CEH). These guys usually hired by larger corporations are tasked with the daily job of purposefully attempting to hack into their own companys system with the intent of finding weaknesses and then helping to make it stronger. However, there is no such 'legal' allowance of having these guys play police and hunt down their attackers. That is left up to certified professional security firms and other firms/branches of government with 'cyber police' power.
  • @31 thats the same thing,..... we now know things can be hacked,. and private stuff isn't save! There are prob many more hacks where we and companies don't know of,...
  • Isn't it bad enough that we have to suffer online interactions on the PS3, only to have yet again let these hackers triumph with the success of Square Enix?? I would understand hacking some other company (even though I really don't) but SERIOUSLY, why go through the attempt to hack that which brought us gamers one of the greatest franchises some of us have ever played in our lives, Final Fantasy?
  • I know its a bad thing but all I can really do is laugh. . . I think its the dumbest thing hitting society in ages.
  • Great. Next they will probably bring XBL down again. I kind of hope that does happen. Then PS3 and 360 fanboys can unite as gamers (Wii can join too, I guess lolz), and bring down these hackers. Affecting one group will affect all other groups. You piss off one group, and you eventually piss off the rest of the groups. We need to unite as gamers, whether PS3, 360, or Wii, we need to take down these hackers!!! I feel inspirational now lolz
  • They say that in Japan in the time of the samurai, in doing some non-serious crime, the person gets his hands cut off. A more serious crime, however, he gets cut in half. Maybe these annoying hackers should have their hands cut off, or maybe get cut in half.
  • i say who cares. people have the right to hack information. as long as they dont destorying/abuse other peoples property(ex. websites), its fine by me. take all the information you want. The people that stopped psn from working.... yes thats a no no. Take my credit card info.... fine, take it, use it, go to jail.
  • Gaming news is so depressing recently :p
  • i cant believe this!! il bet activision or capcom is next they seem to be attacking the MAJOR companies
  • Hackers are like cancer you cant kill them -.- or mess with those son of b*****
  • What a surprise, who would've thought these cockroaches would strike again, we need to send Mr T out to get them, that'd show 'em :D
  • @69 to bad the 360 douche bags will still say "duh are shit60 is still better"
  • I just wish real hackers were more like the ones in the 1995 film 'Hackers': awesome, good-looking and ready to take the fight to Fisher Stevens. Hack the planet!
  • XD!!ONE!!!
  • These hackers really do need to get a life....like a life in prison....15 years worth. Then again, what's the best that they'll try and find a way to hack into prison computers and release all the inmates? Why don't they go and piss off Bill Gates and take on Microsoft already? I'd like to see them try and get away with that >.>
  • Well if they can't stop the hackers, just make everything free... :D Maybe they are working for another gaming company ? :o I hope they get caught eventually.
  • trust me, m$ will be shitting themselves right now just like any other big company. seems like nobody is safe. 2012 is getting ever closer.
  • Dear Hackers, GET A LIFE Instead attacking VideoGames Industry you fuckers. Thanks
  • #81 what about 2012? if you think the world will end in 2012 you must be dumb because no one knows when. only God know.
  • Soon these assholes can hack anything they want
  • i bet all these hacks are planned attacks from the film industry, who are not happy the games industry is now bigger than them. Jus sayin.....
  • @44 you notice the same thing hmmmm, I just wonder who benefits from all this?
  • @85: Good conspiracy theory, but the the music industry labels would be a better guess. ;) This is just a sign of the times; it's not like hacking large companies started with Anonymous and Sony. TJ Maxx, Home Depot, Bank of America, J.P. Morgan Chase, the list goes on and on.... all of these companies have dealt with large-scale data theft. It's only now that everyone is starting to pay attention to these low-lifes who think that they are above the law.
  • I like the way the majority of people here assume it's the same group of people doing all these 'hacks'.
  • @83 you are dumber than he is
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