Square Enix Hacked
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: May 14, 2011 15:12 JST
- Tags: Canada, Crime, Hacking, Internet, Square Enix, Technology
Not to be out done by the likes of Sony, now Square Enix has apologised for allowing hackers to make off with the personal details of thousands of its users.
According to Square Enix’s reports, the email addresses of 25,000 customers were stolen from Eidos’ Canadian site, as well as a further 350 resumes from prospective Canadian workers:
“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.”
As with the Sony hacks, just who is really behind the attack is not known – the “Owned by Chippy1337” message the site was defaced with is suspected to be a red herring.
Fortunately for Square Enix and its victims, the severity and scale of this leak would appear to be rather minor compared to Sony’s record-breaking hack – although, like Sony, Square Enix is not a company much known for honest dealings with mere customers, so whether the hackers obtained anything else in the course of their antics can only be guessed at.
Whatever the effect on the PR efforts of the companies concerned, it seems likely that many consumers will be very much more sceptical about handing out their personal details to every company which insists on it in future.
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*Sony gets hacked*
SE: Lol. Noobs.
*SE gets hacked*
SE: ...
wait, there are THOUSANDS still playing FF14!?
What the hell Eidos’ Canadian site have to do with FFXIV?
Square Enix bought Eidos quite a while ago...
I guess Eidos is done for then.
Eidos is part of SE, and probably has host the some servers for the game.
Ghost players no longer playing :3
And...
"They were site registration email addresses provided to us for users to receive product information updates."
350 Canadians personal info leaked sounds a heck lot more serious than notification emails (who still signs up for FF updates anyway?).
"(who still signs up for FF updates anyway?)."
Idiot FF fanboys still playing FF14? 25K sounds about right for something like that.
I know a lot more people who still play 11 over 14...
Whats with hacking all these JP companies.
It's either the Chinese government's "secret" cyber warfare unit -- Again! -- or some terrorist cell gettin' some data for making fake aliases for it's members.
People in Japan are actually honest so I guess they don't put as much effort in security as we do.
So, are they dumb or are we jerks? Probably both.
Seeing how they didn't bother to think about the possibility that maybe fukushima would have to deal with some natural disasters, like a tsunami, makes them dumb.
Exactly what I was thinking! This looks like a cyber war more than anything.
Don't need to search to much to see where the culprids are from and who is gaining from this.
My JP Companies Can't Be This Hackable!
srsly, what's wrong with you guys...
Sony got hacked for shutting Hotz's mouth.
SE got hacked for creating that binary pile of dung called FFXIII and FFXIV maybe? Not to mention continuing to hire Motomu Toriyama despite many fans wanting him out?
FFXIII was good. People who play Final Fantasies tend to get spoiled. Each FF has been an amazing stand alone game. Sure, each FF has a different system for it's cutscenes, gameplay, etc... and you might not have preferred certain plots or systems, but that doesn't make them bad games.
Except for FFX-2. That was shit. And FFXIV. But we knew that was going to be shit. But other than that........
Not all hacking is for a reason, guy probably ran a automated scan and found a vulnerability.
You sir are a moron. And you wouldn't know a good game. If it was right in front of your face.
You also completely did not read the topic at all.
Good day.
This isn't really Square-Enix, it's just Eidos. Mentioning this won't stop stupid titles/images for hits or people ignoring the article though.
Earthquake Effect
Fail! -.-
They'll use this as a opportunity to turn down resumes.
Dear ????
We apologize that your resume got accessed -blah blah-
PS. You didn't get the job.
LOL That would be messed up. :D
this is also a good chance to pretend you turned one in already! If luck is on your side, they'll ask you for another one.
China practicing to wipe out other countries economies via the net.
OH FUCK! China has Black Lotus on the field, look out! Get stealth detection quick!
"Whatever the effect on the PR efforts of the companies concerned, it seems likely that many consumers will be very much more sceptical about handing out their personal details to every company which insists on it in future."
No, they won't. We will, but not they.
"Not to be outdone by the likes of Sony..."
That's got to be the most asinine thing I've ever read!
Well that did feel strange....i mean, it's strange to think that FF14 has "thousands" of players....
Fact 1, for every defense, there will be a corresponding issue of a challenge.
I don't see credit card woes as being any different that people cracking game copy protection.
Everytime we pirate software, we are doing nothing less than the same thing that those using stolen credit card details have done.
Munch on that while railing about how Sony is so fucking responsible this and so damned responsible that.
The thieves are the ones you want to hate.
No, no.. the 'thieves' are the ones we want to glorify. Thieves are romantic. As are pirates.
What we really want to hate are companies. Big irresponsible companies.
You must be American. That idealism is like a STD, it's being transmitted unprotected throughout this country like Aids.
Doing the best you can, then having someone purposely and actively trying to destroy it is irresponsible?
You're probably one of those people who would blame the car owner if their car got stolen. Things will happen and nobody is perfect, no system is immmune, no one is invincible and the tables can be turned so easily.
And by the way, there is absolutely nothing romantic about thieves and pirates unless you're a 300 pound ugly as sin virginal chick drooling over romance novels in the supermarket's checkout isle while wearing a mustard stained twilight shirt or jabba the hut sized neckbeard who thinks the world owes them something, demands change and then moments later turns around and completely betrays their own idealism when the latest Keygen/crack is released.
anon 21:48 14/05/2011, you must be french
21:48 clearly hates one piece.
LOL 21:48. U MAD?
Remove the sand from your scrot. You'll feel better.
@Sukinai There is a huge difference between pirating games and losing personal information. For one, identity theft. Or when we pirate a game, does Sony suddenly have new credit cards and loans under its name? Dont be ridiculous. Sony is very much responsible for losing personal information and so is Square. The fact is, when we give them our information, we are trusting them with a very important part of ourselves and they let us down. Piracy and sales and whatever else are all completely different and separate.
@ 22:50
http://i1097.photobucket.com/albums/g346/jm90989/DoremiStrawberryPanic-10XviDDF290165avi_snapshot_0524_20110515_002051.jpg
But he's right...
Well, since it's Tifa who does the apologizing....I forgive them :P
So are they just hacking things for the hell of it now? In other news, best Tifa picture I've seen in a long time.
And I thought they were talking about people cheating in Final Fantasy XIV. I guess the servers are still off to save power.
That`s a mighty fine Tifa right there. Dat cute face.
While I usually dislike her design and immense oppai, this one`s quality.
damn hackers :\
Squenix one prolly inside job from disgruntled employee.
square enics games sucks cunt yo, especially that gay combination of disney and faggotry, it's pure shit. make GTA or death race next time.
I think it's time we did a good old hacker hunt, tie the fuckers to a pole and burn em!!
They probably know how fucked they are and if they are asked why they did it they'd just say "XDDD WE DID IT FOR THE LULZ ANONYMUS IS LEEJUN." at least If it is anonymous.
SE is pretty screwed
don't trust Japanese they can even protect your information. fail fail fail i thought japan was suppose to be technologically advance but look at Toyota and look at fukushima, sony, etc etc
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