Games Creator Square Enix Hacked

Hackers have damaged in to two websites belonging to Japanese video games creator Square Enix.

The firm fixed that the e-mail addresses of up to 25,000 customers who had purebred for product updates might have been stolen as a result.

Resumes of 350 people submitting an application jobs in its Canadian office could moreover have been copied from the web servers.

Square Enix, that creates the renouned Final Fantasy, Deus Ex and Tomb Raider games, apologised is to breach.

In a statement, it said: "Square Enix can declare a organisation of hackers gained access to tools of our Eidosmontreal.com website together with two of our product sites.

"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."

It is accepted that the websites affected were Eidosmontreal.com , run by Square Enix's auxiliary Eidos, and Deusex.com , a promotional site is to stirring game, Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

Graham Cluley, a expert at safety firm Sophos, warned that both leaks could result in problems is to people concerned.

"With the e-mail there is a risk that gamers could be e-mailed by someone sanctimonious to be from the firm who gets them to click on a couple or run a few rouge software," he told BBC News.

"The resumes are a draft for identity theft. They have all that scammers want. The usually thing omitted is credit card information."

Mr Cluley sharp out that there was moreover the promising for outrageous annoyance as it was doubtful those who had practical for jobs would wish their stream employers to know.

Square Enix mentioned there was no indication that the data had been distributed.

It moreover emphasised that the firm does not grip customers' credit card data on its web servers.

Shortly after the attack, both websites displayed the summary "Owned by Chippy1337", together with several other well known hacker names, inclusive Xero, XiX and Venuism.

However, it appears that a few or all of those names might have been wasted by the actual attackers.

Logs of Internet Relay Chat (IRC) conversations have appeared on the online, that show up to show the perpetrators deliberating the penetrate as they carried it out.

In one section, the people receiving segment wrote: "We put it in the name of chippy1337 and write the names ryan, dfs, xero, nikon, xix, venuism and evilhom3r.

The same person then updated the comment, "lol [laugh out loud]".

Security in the video games attention has been in the spotlight in new weeks after the hacking attacks on Sony's PlayStation Network and SOE online multiplayer system.

The personal sum of around 100 million users were stolen from the company's servers.

Investigations in to the source of the data crack are continuing, with dilettante P.C. debate teams and the FBI getting involved.

The PlayStation Network waste offline, more than 3 weeks after the penetration was discovered.