Passwords Go Walkies At Bethesda and Unreal

Sigh. It seems for large companies*, secure servers are just too hard to come by these days. In the past week Bethesda announced that “hackers may have gained access to some user names, email addresses, and/or passwords” and Unreal admitted that “hackers likely obtained the email addresses and encrypted passwords of forum users”.

In other “it was hackers’ fault”  news, the cheeky champs at LulzSec spent a day taking requests and ended up DDoSing Minecraft, EVE Online, League of Legends and The Escapist. In these situations no data was compromised, instead important servers were overwhelmed until the target fell over.

At some point next week we may simply start listing sites and games which haven’t either been affected by Denial of Service attacks, or potentially breached your personal data.

Now would be a good time to remind you to use a different password for every website you visit. Including this one. Change it. Now.

Via: Rock, Paper, Shotgun, 1UP

*Nukezilla is not a large company. A spider farting within a three mile radius of our server would cause unprecedented and unfixable structural damage.