14 DAY TRIAL // Video game publisher Bethesda is the latest victim of an organized hacker attack, having its servers penetrated and announcing that data like user names, e-mail addresses and passwords have been compromised.
The company says that it has no financial or credit card information stored on the servers that were breached by hackers, but that users should take care and change their login information on all Bethesda sites in order to keep their profiles secure and make sure that there is no attempt at identity theft.
An official blog post from Bethesda reads: “As we don’t know what further plans the hackers may have, we suggest that you keep an eye out for suspicious emails and account activity.”
It adds, “We regret any inconvenience that these attacks on us cause for you. These attacks will be evaluated to determine if there are any additional protections we might take that would be prudent.”
A group known as Lulzsec has sent a number of messages on Twitter suggesting that it is behind the attack on Bethesda.
The group seems to imply that it has nothing to gain from the attack apart from exposure and some sort of dubious fame and has actually urged Bethesda to work on the upcoming The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, saying that they are eagerly awaiting to play the game.
Recently, the security of other video game companies like Codemasters, Epic Games and Nintendo of Europe have been attacked by unidentified hackers, although the companies are saying that the breaches were relatively small and that no financial information has been stolen.
This comes after the April attack that took down the PSN and has forced Sony to admit that more than 77 million users have had a lot of data stolen.
It's not clear whether these are organized attacks that specifically target the video game industry or whether hacker groups are simply choosing the worst protected targets.
It seems that the United States Congress servers were also recently breached.