Gaming

Pierluigi Paganini October 14, 2016
33 million records exposed after the Evony data breach

The website and the forum of the Evony gaming company were hacked this summer and as a result 33 Million of its gamers have their data compromised. Data of more than 33 million accounts of the Evony gaming company were stolen as result of a data breach occurred in June. Evony is the company that […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 30, 2016
Minecraft World Map data breach, 71,000 accounts leaked online

The popular security expert Troy Hunt reported some 71,000 user accounts and IP addresses have been leaked from the website Minecraft World Map. Another data breach affects the gaming industry, this time, 71,000 Minecraft World Map accounts has been leaked online after the ‘hack.’ Some 71,000 user accounts and IP addresses have been leaked from Minecraft […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 25, 2016
vBulletin vulnerabilities exposed more than 27 million users’ records

Security vulnerabilities in the vBulletin platform have exposed more than 27 million accounts, many of them belonging to gamers on mail.ru. The Data breach monitoring service LeakedSource has disclosed 11 new data breaches. Security vulnerabilities in the vBulletin platform have exposed more than 27 million accounts, the majority of which belongs to three games on […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 23, 2016
Epic Games forums hacked again, thousands of account logins stolen

The Epic Games forums hacked again, more than 800,000 logins accounts have been stolen, with more than half a million from Unreal Engine’s forums. Epic Games forums breached again, salted passwords of 808,000 Unreal Engine and Unreal Tournament forum accounts have been exposed. The stolen records from Epic Games include email addresses, birth dates, and […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 24, 2016
Hacking Pokemon Go to reveal characters all around you

A group of hackers has devised a method to hack Pokemon Go to and reveal the exact location of characters all around you. Pokemon Go is the game of the moment, its viral and the attention of the media is very high on the gaming novelty. As the players know, they haven’t the precise location of nearby Pokemon […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 06, 2016
Phantom Squad took credit for the PlayStation network outage

The hacking crew Phantom Squad claims responsibility for an alleged DDoS attack that brought down the PlayStation Network. Around 13:00 EST on Monday, The PlayStation Network suffered a major outage worldwide, Sony early confirmed that the network was “experiencing issues” and its status page showed that the problems were affecting all of its major services. Sony […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2016
The Sony PlayStation Network is down worldwide

The Sony PlayStation Network is down, it is the first major issue suffered on a global scale in 2016.  Sony acknowledges the problems. The PlayStation Network is down worldwide. I’m just back home trying to play with my son when I had the ugly surprise. It is the first massive outage of the year, I searched […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 31, 2015
Data of 34,000 Steam users exposed due to buggy caching configuration

Valve company publicly confirmed that Steam deployed a buggy caching configuration to mitigate a DDoS attack which exposed Steam users personal information. Still problems for the Steam gaming platform, details of 34,000 Steam users have been exposed during a DDoS attack. Last week, as a result of a configuration change, a security issue allowed some Steam […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 26, 2015
A serious issue in Steam allowed access to other users’ accounts

As a result of a configuration change a security issue allowed some Steam users to randomly see pages generated for other users for a period of less than an hour. Bad news for the popular community of Steam gamers, some of the users are facing serious security issues. Several users online reported to be able to […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2015
TeslaCrypt ransomware encrypts also gaming data

TeslaCrypt is a new strain of ransomware, spotted in the wild by experts at Emsisoft, which is also targeting users of principal gaming platforms. A new strain of ransomware dubber TeslaCrypt was spotted in the wild by the researchers at the security firm Emsisoft. TeslaCrypt was discovered at the end of February, researchers at Bromium that analyzed the […]