Epic Games Suffer Hackers

Epic Games have been the latest video game company to be hacked, adding to the growing list of companies suffering problems. Both Epic Games’ website and forum were taken down for maintenance while they reset everyone’s passwords. While the Gears Of War creators do not ask for any credit card details for their sites, they did confirm that email addresses may have been taken.

An email from Epic Games went out to users on the 11th stating:

Our Epic Games web sites and forums were recently hacked. After some downtime, they’re back up and running now.

The hackers may have obtained the email addresses and encrypted passwords of forum users. Plaintext passwords weren’t revealed, but it’s possible that those passwords could be obtained by a brute-force attack on the encrypted passwords. Therefore, we have reset all passwords. Your new password at the bottom of this message.

The Unreal Developer Network (UDN) hasn’t been compromised. Thankfully, none of our web sites ask for, or store, credit card information or other financial data.

We’re sorry for the inconvenience, and appreciate everyone’s patience as we wrestle our servers back under control.

Tim Sweeney
Founder, Epic Games Inc

So with Sony, Square-Enix and Codemasters all suffering hacks this year, it seems like Epic Games are joining a not so exclusive & expanding club.