Ubisoft suffered a cyber security incident that caused a temporary disruption

Video game company Ubisoft has suffered a ‘cyber security incident’ that had a severe impact on games, systems, and services.

The rumors of a cyber attack against Ubisoft circulated online in the last few days, while data extortion group LAPSUS$ claimed to have hacked the company.

Over the last few days, multiple users reported problems accessing some services of the gaming firms.

Ubisoft has finally announced to have suffered a ‘cyber security incident’ that caused temporary disruption.

“Last week, Ubisoft experienced a cyber security incident that caused temporary disruption to some of our games, systems, and services. Our IT teams are working with leading external experts to investigate the issue. As a precautionary measure we initiated a company-wide password reset.” reads the announcement of the company. “Also, we can confirm that all our games and services are functioning normally and that at this time there is no evidence any player personal information was accessed or exposed as a by-product of this incident.”

The company hired external experts to investigate the incident ad determine its impact on data and infrastructure. At this time, there is no evidence of a data breach during the incident and the services are up and running normally.

At this time there are no details about the incident, Lapsus$ gang may have breached the company network and exfiltrated internal data.

The cybercriminal group has recently stolen sensitive data from giant firms, including NVIDIA, and Samsung that already disclosed a data breach.

Thursday, March 10, Lapsus$ ransomware gang announced they’re starting to recruit insiders employed within major technology giants and ISPs, such companies include Microsoft, Apple, EA Games and IBM. Their scope of interests includes – major telecommunications companies such as Claro, Telefonica and AT&T.

This isn’t the first time that Ubisoft suffered a cyber incident, in December the gaming firm discloses a data breach that resulted in unauthorized access to ‘Just Dance’ user data. The security breach was caused by a misconfiguration, the good news is that the problem has been quickly solved.

In October 2020, the Egregor ransomware gang has hit the game developer Crytek and leaked files allegedly stolen from the systems of Ubisoft.

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Pierluigi Paganini

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.