Hackers might have accessed up to 25,000 e-mail addresses and 350 résumés during an assault on diversion developer Eidos Interactive's websites, primogenitor firm Square Enix mentioned Friday.
The safety breach, that Square Enix mentioned occurred Wednesday, could have since hackers access to user information is to website, together with résumés submitted by work field to Eidos.
"Square Enix can approve a organisation of hackers gained access to tools of our Eidosmontreal.com website together with two of our product sites," the firm told Joystiq. "We right away took the sites offline to evaluate how this had happened and what had been accessed, then took serve measures to enlarge the safety of these and all of our websites, before permitting the sites to go live again."
Square Enix updated that it would be contacting all parties that might have been affected by the breach, emphasizing that no credit card information was compromised.
According to a inform by one-time Washington Post bard Brian Krebs, the authorized and Eidos websites were unapproachable Thursday sunrise . During this period, hackers reportedly put up a ensign that read " Owned by Chippy1337 ."
The hackers, Krebs wrote, mentioned they outline to apportion the stolen information on record pity networks. His inform pegs the volume of information stolen, according to the hackers, to be the personal information of more than 80,000 users and 9,000 ésumés.
A new Ars Technica inform suggests there might be conflict amid members of hacking combined Anonymous , centering on a 17-year-old British hacker declared Ryan. According to a talk log unclosed by Krebs, the Eidos hackers attempted to support Ryan is to assault .
It's misleading either this is connected to the crippling penetrate on Sony's PlayStation Network a few weeks ago that left millions of users' personal information at risk. Anonymous has disavowed shortcoming for that assault .
Neither Square Enix nor Eidos Interactive responded to Wired.com's requests for criticism Friday.
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