Hackers have stolen customer details from the UK's Codemasters, which makes games including Operation Flashpoint: Red River
Hackers have stolen a database with names and email addresses of customers of the UK's largest games publisher Codemasters following an attack on 3 June, the company admitted on Friday.
But the firm insisted that no financial details and no passwords could have been compromised by the break-in, the latest in a series carried out against gaming companies including Sony and Nintendo.
In an email sent out on Friday morning to everyone who had registered on the site, the company warned that people should be wary of emails claiming to come from Codemasters which require them to sign in to pages and give their passwords or financial details.
A spokesman said that the week-long delay between the hack and the warning happened because the web team had had to investigate the precise cause and extent of the attack.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the hack, which extended through codemasters.com, the Codemasters corporate website and its subdomains, the DIRT 3 VIP code redemption page, and the Codemasters E-Store. Codemasters has taken its site offline and redirected codemasters.com to its Facebook page. "We won't put it back up until we're sure it can be completely secure," said a spokesman.
Among the details that the hackers could have accessed are names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, date of birth, any biographical details provided, XBox Live gamer tag and order history. A spokesman for Codemasters said that although the hackers had access to the password database, it was "very heavily encrypted" and there was no way the hackers could have read the originals.
The company, however, advised people to change their password at once if they use Xbox Live or other services.
The break-in is the latest in a spate of hacking attacks in which both the activist group Anonymous and a newer group called Lulzsec have been implicated.
But the firm insisted that no financial details and no passwords could have been compromised by the break-in, the latest in a series carried out against gaming companies including Sony and Nintendo.
In an email sent out on Friday morning to everyone who had registered on the site, the company warned that people should be wary of emails claiming to come from Codemasters which require them to sign in to pages and give their passwords or financial details.
A spokesman said that the week-long delay between the hack and the warning happened because the web team had had to investigate the precise cause and extent of the attack.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the hack, which extended through codemasters.com, the Codemasters corporate website and its subdomains, the DIRT 3 VIP code redemption page, and the Codemasters E-Store. Codemasters has taken its site offline and redirected codemasters.com to its Facebook page. "We won't put it back up until we're sure it can be completely secure," said a spokesman.
Among the details that the hackers could have accessed are names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, date of birth, any biographical details provided, XBox Live gamer tag and order history. A spokesman for Codemasters said that although the hackers had access to the password database, it was "very heavily encrypted" and there was no way the hackers could have read the originals.
The company, however, advised people to change their password at once if they use Xbox Live or other services.
The break-in is the latest in a spate of hacking attacks in which both the activist group Anonymous and a newer group called Lulzsec have been implicated.
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