Square Enix confirms multiple website hacks

[Dark Drakan]

Seems that after the PSN hack Square Enix have been targeted by hackers too and a number of the company's websites have been breached. Though they dont contain any credit card details unlike PSN the hackers have managed to obtain 25,000 email addresses and "up to 350" job seekers' resumes. Square Enix have commented on the hack too:​

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.

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.​

As expected Rogue Anonymous members are rumoured to be behind the attack.​

This is after the news that Square Enix had been forced to cancel certain yet unnamed projects after their revenue had fell dramatically after the earthquake and Tsunami. ​

February's projected ¥1 billion ($12.4 million) profit turning to a loss of ¥12 billion ($148 million)

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[Richtofen]

Oh jeez, what is the world coming to?

 

[Dark Drakan]

Oh jeez, what is the world coming to?

Seems some members have gone rogue and have been tarnishing the Anonymous name by taking peoples details etc, something Anonymous themselves wanted no part of. The main blog of the group was hacked too so they have had trouble with them too.