Ontwikkelaar Square Enix is gehacked

Net nu het grootste gebeuren van het hele PSN-offline gebeuren voorbij is, komen we met een ander niet zo positief nieuwtje. Ontwikkelaar Square Enix, onder andere bekend van de Final Fantasy en de Kingdom Hearts serie, is de dupe geworden van internet hackers.

Vandaag hebben hackers toegang verkregen tot drie sites van Square Enix. De schade die is geleden is vrij beperkt, er zijn 25000 e-mail adressen achterhaald, maar dit zijn alleen inlog adressen. Oftewel, persoonlijke informatie heeft hier niet onder geleden. Vlak na het ontdekken hiervan heeft Square Enix de sites uit de lucht gehaald. Ook zijn er geen credit card gegevens achterhaald, dus iedereen kan weer rustig ademhalen. Voor een officiële verklaring van Square Enix kan je altijd even hieronder kijken:

“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.

Eidosmontreal.com does not hold any credit card information or code data, however there are resumes which are submitted to the website by people interested in jobs at the studio.

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.”