BioWare's Neverwinter Nights Forum Server Hacked 111
garatheus writes "The folks at EA/BioWare sent out an email this morning (GMT +2) outlining that their older Neverwinter Nights forums had been hacked, with a fair amount of user information stolen from the database — the likes of user names, encrypted passwords, email addresses, mailing addresses, names, phone numbers, CD keys and birth dates. They do go on to say that 'no credit card data was compromised from the servers, nor did we ever have or store sensitive data like social security numbers.' There's no pointing of fingers as to who might have done the compromising, though."
Re:I got this e-mail... (Score:2, Insightful)
Actually it is harmful, while the company is out trying to figure out how and what got stolen the hackers are trying the stolen passwords on users email accounts and anywhere else that the user's email address pops up. Time is very important when dealing with these things so that the users can change their passwords as soon as possible.