BioWare - 18.000 Accounts Hacked

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BioWare's Aaryn Flynn has posted a notice on their social network informing users of a NWN forums breach which occured yesterday. 18.000 accounts in total have been compromised and the hackers have gained user account names and passwords, e-mail addresses, and birth dates. Here's the full announcement:

Yesterday (June 14), we learned that a hacker gained unauthorized access to the decade-old BioWare community server system associated with the Neverwinter Nights forums. We immediately took appropriate steps to protect our consumers’ data and launched an ongoing evaluation of the seriousness of the breach. We have determined that no credit card data was compromised, nor did we ever have or store sensitive data like social security numbers. However hackers may have obtained information such as user account names and passwords, email addresses, and birth dates of approximately 18,000 accounts--a very small percentage of total users. We have emailed those whose accounts may have been compromised and either disabled their accounts or reset their EA Account passwords. If you did not receive an email from us, or if your password still works for your EA account, your username and password were not compromised. Nevertheless, changing your password regularly is always helpful to protect your account.

We take the security of your information very seriously and regret any inconvenience this may have caused you. If your username, email address and/or password on the Neverwinter Nights forums are similar to those you use on other sites, we recommend changing your password at those sites as well. We advise all of our fans to always be aware of any suspicious emails or account activity and report any suspicious emails and account activity to Customer Support at 1-866-543-5435.

Aaryn Flynn
Studio GM, BioWare Edmonton
VP, Electronic Arts


http://support.ea.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5367/​

No word yet on whether this was another hit by LulzSec, but BioWare is a likely target since they've already taken down Bethesda. If this keeps going on much longer, there'll hardly be any gamers left who won't have their private information hacked into and exposed somewhere. :/