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13 million MapleStory players at risk after hack – casting a shadow over Nexon’s IPO

25

Nov

2011

If you’re about to float your video game company on the stock exchange, probably the last thing you want is for a hacker to break into the personal details of some 13 million of your players. But that’s exactly what has happened to South Korean firm Nexon, which runs the massively-popular MMORPG “MapleStory”. A statement […]

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LulzSec attacks US Senate and Bethesda Softworks

14

Jun

2011

Apparently committing crimes for the “lulz” is still entertaining for the group known as LulzSec. They announced their latest conquests around 12:30pm PDT today, senate.gov and Bethesda Softworks. Nothing terribly secret was lost in the breach of the US Senate’s web server. LulzSec posted some basic information on the filesystems, user logins and the Apache […]

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Eidos confirms website hack, email addresses and resumes stolen

13

May

2011

Eidos has revealed that resumes of job hunters and email addresses of video game fans have been stolen by hackers in an attack on the Eidos and “Deus Ex: Human Revolution” websites. Square Enix, the parent company of Eidos, confirmed the hack in a PDF press release. (Why do companies publish their press releases as […]

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