Happening almost simultaneously with the hacks at Nintendo, Bethesda, and other firms, the Epic Games hack spilled email addresses and encrypted passwords online and prompted the company to reset all of its users’ passwords. Codemasters had it bad too: their breach exposed the personal information of thousands of users including names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, passwords, and IP addresses among other information. Codemasters had to black out their website for a period of time. Like most breached companies, they caught flack in the court of public opinion for storing unnecessary information and being slow to respond to the incident.
June 2011 – Epic Games & Codemasters Hacks
Happening almost simultaneously with the hacks at Nintendo, Bethesda, and other firms, the Epic Games hack spilled email addresses and encrypted passwords online and prompted the company to reset all of its users’ passwords.
