Ubisoft Hacked, Account Data Compromised 138
Freshly Exhumed writes "There's a new security breach announcement over at the website of game publisher and developer Ubisoft today. Quoting:: 'We recently found that one of our Web sites was exploited to gain unauthorized access to some of our online systems. We instantly took steps to close off this access, to begin a thorough investigation with relevant authorities, internal and external security experts, and to start restoring the integrity of any compromised systems. During this process, we learned that data were illegally accessed from our account database, including user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords. No personal payment information is stored with Ubisoft, meaning your debit/credit card information was safe from this intrusion. As a result, we are recommending you to change your password by clicking this link.'"
Great job there, UbiSoft (Score:4, Insightful)
I never wanted to sign up for your crappy service in the first place, but was forced to just so I could play a game I already legally purchased.
Fuck you, UbiSoft!
Re:should of killed the DRM system (Score:5, Insightful)
We never had this problem when I was playing Road Rash and Screamer and Doom and Quake and Duke Nukem, because the game publishers never had any personal info of ours to lose in a security breach. You paid your cash for the game, put the CD in, installed, and played.
In the late eighties we got rid of DRM by refusing to buy software with it. Lots of companies went out of business because of DRM. All they had to do was wait for a more gullible and docile generation to come along and bring it back.
DRM is the biggest reason I stopped gaming (that, and none of the new games were as good as the old ones, even if the artwork was better). I wonder how many other customers DRM has cost these morons? Keep shooting, ubisoft, you have more feet and bullets left.
Re:should of killed the DRM system (Score:5, Insightful)
The actual e-mail for reference (Score:4, Insightful)
Security update regarding your Ubisoft account
- please create a new password
Dear Member,
We recently found that one of our Web sites was exploited to gain unauthorised access to some of our online systems. We instantly took steps to close off this access, investigate the incident and begin restoring the integrity of any compromised systems.
During this process, we learned that data had been illegally accessed from our account database, including user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords. Please note that no personal payment information is stored with Ubisoft, meaning your debit/credit card information was safe from this intrusion.
As a result, we are recommending that you change the password for your account: <account name>
To enter your new password, click the link below: https://secure.ubi.com/register/ResetPassword.aspx [ubi.com]?...
Out of an abundance of caution, we also recommend that you change your password on any other Web site or service where you use the same or a similar password.
You can find more information here https://support.ubi.com/en-GB/FAQ.aspx?platformid=60&brandid=2030&productid=3888&faqid=kA030000000eYYxCAM [ubi.com].
For any additional support enquiries, please contact our customer service via our support web site at https://support.ubi.com/ [ubi.com]
We sincerely apologise to all of you for the inconvenience. Please rest assured that your security remains our priority.
The Ubisoft team
Re:should of killed the DRM system (Score:3, Insightful)
I guess we lived in different 80s. The way I remember it there was a random list of things to look up and they had to be entered every game. I also remember on my Commodore 64 that most commercial game disks wouldn't copy (without hacking tools to copy bad sectors etc.), and wouldn't work on drives other than the 1541 because they relied on particular idiosyncrasies in that drive to enforce their protection.
The only reason they didn't make you connect to their servers is that modems weren't common.