If you've played Rift, or even its open beta, be aware that an account database of developer Trion Worlds has been hacked. While the naughty hackers have made off with personal information including addresses and dates of birth, Trion insists that, "There is no evidence, and we have no reason to believe, that full credit card information was accessed or compromised in any way."
A letter from Valve boss Gabe Newell has revealed that an investigation into the "intrusion" that "defaced" the Steam forums on Sunday, November 6, was worse than the company originally believed.
"We learned that intruders obtained access to a Steam database in addition to the forums," Newell wrote. "This database contained information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information. We do not have evidence that encrypted credit card numbers or personally identifying information were taken by the intruders, or that the protection on credit card numbers or passwords was cracked."
"usually this allways happens through a backdoor in the forums for the company.... no company has ..."
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