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I think the gaming community needs a break from all these hackers…But for now, they’ve struck again. This time onto another major games company, Epic Games, who have officially admitted that their websites and forums have been subjected to a breach.

The email that was sent to all the members:

Our Epic Games web sites and forums were recently hacked. After some downtime, they’re back up and running now.

The hackers may have obtained the email addresses and encrypted passwords of forum users. Plaintext passwords weren’t revealed, but it’s possible that those passwords could be obtained by a brute-force attack on the encrypted passwords. Therefore, we have reset all passwords. Your new password at the bottom of this message.

The Unreal Developer Network (UDN) hasn’t been compromised. Thankfully, none of our web sites ask for, or store, credit card information or other financial data.

We’re sorry for the inconvenience, and appreciate everyone’s patience as we wrestle our servers back under control.

Tim Sweeney
Founder, Epic Games Inc.

At least this time, it doesn’t seem as widespread as other attacks (notably, Sony). And they were pretty speedy with coming up with the solution to do a mass reset for passwords. Hopefully the unknown hacker only wanted to play and won’t be back again for seconds.

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lucky it wasn’t a huge hack
thanks for sharing


What the heck is up with all these hackers haacking into websites and consoles recently. :/


good thing it was figured out!!
thanks for sharing!


That sucks.  Glad they were able to figure things out quickly


Epic GAmes has done well on telling immediately the problem.


hope its not too damaging!



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