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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]