The hacker attacks continue, this time on a company that has nothing to do with Sony… That of Square Enix-owned Eidos via their Eidos Montreal studio’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution web-site and other related sites. And yes, information was indeed stolen.
Although this time it was not credit card numbers but resume information, so while it is not as bad as the Sony attacks that have kept the PlayStation Network offline, it is still worrysome as the web-sites were “defaced and plundered” via a “splinter cell of the hacktivist group Anonymous”. This of course comes in the wake of nearly 100 million PSN costumers having their account information compromised by likely the same group of people or hackers who sympathise with them.
Here is Square Enix’s official response:
“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.
This is getting beyond ridiculous. These people must be stopped. The good news is that as this is happening more and more, other web-sites and companies will be prepared ahead of time. Hopefully this will make digital security even stronger as people beef up their protection against these types of hacker attacks.”
Speaking of hacking…. this video breaksdown exactly how Hacking works in Deus Ex: Human Revolution!
The Deus Ex: Human Revolution release date is on August 23rd, 2011 for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.
Via Square Enix