Tag: hack

PSA: Hackers used CCleaner as malware host, affects 2.27 million users

Posted on: September 18, 2017 /

Categories: General Gaming News

Around 2.27 million users of Piriform’s popular CCleaner security app have been advised to update the application—a result of sophisticated hacker-hidden malware. Discovered by researchers at Cisco’s Talos division, the attack involved remote code execution that piggy-backed off of CCleaner by pushing a fake update that included malware. Several users report that various other security

Epic Games Forums Are Compromised Too

Posted on: August 25, 2016 /

Categories: General Gaming News

In what is now becoming a widespread problem for the vBulletin platform, this time Epic games forums were hacked. Epic issued the following statement explaining exactly what has happened. We believe a recent Unreal Engine and Unreal Tournament forum compromise revealed email addresses and other data entered into the forums, but no passwords in any

Yet Another vBulletin Breach, Now Its Funcom’s Turn

Posted on: August 25, 2016 /

Categories: General Gaming News

Hot on the heels of the breach of popular gaming site DLH, which is still being denied by the site staff, another set of gaming forums have been compromised through the use of a vulnerability in the vBulletin software. Funcom has posted a warning to players of all of it’s games (The Secret World, Anarchy

DLH Breach Exposes Millions of Steam Keys

Posted on: August 21, 2016 /

Categories: General Gaming News

A recently discovered breach of gaming news site DLH.net has exposed over nine million keys after an unknown hacker compromised the site. DLH.net is an aggregate site that is comprised of news, reviews, forums and cheats for gamers. The site also allows users to share redeemable game keys through its forums, which along with the

Twitch resets passwords after hacking attempt

Posted on: March 24, 2015 /

Categories: General Gaming News

Twitch users will need to change their passwords, as the company has discovered what it believes “may” have been unauthorised access to certain accounts.