Wonder who is going to be next then...

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Important information regarding your account



Dear valued Codemasters customer,

On Friday 3rd June, unauthorised entry was gained to our Codemasters.com website. As soon as the intrusion was detected, we immediately took codemasters.com and associated web services offline in order to prevent any further intrusion.

During the days since the attack we have conducted a thorough investigation in order to ascertain the extent and scope of the breach and have regrettably discovered that the intruder was able to gain access to the following:

Codemasters.com website

Access to the Codemasters corporate website and sub-domains.

DiRT 3 VIP code redemption page

Access to the DiRT 3 VIP code redemption page.

The Codemasters EStore

We believe the following have been compromised: Customer names and addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, encrypted passwords and order history. Please note that no personal payment information was stored with Codemasters as we use external payment providers, meaning your payment details were not at risk from this intrusion.

Codemasters CodeM database

Members' names, usernames, screen names, email addresses, date of birth, encrypted passwords, newsletter preferences, any biographies entered by users, details of last site activity, IP addresses and Xbox Live Gamertags are all believed to have been compromised.

Whilst we do not have confirmation that any of this data was actually downloaded onto an external device, we have to assume that, as access was gained, all of these details were compromised and/or stolen.

The Codemasters.com website will remain offline for the foreseeable future with all Codemasters.com traffic re-directed to the Codemasters Facebook page instead. A new website will launch later in the year.

Advice

For your security, in the first instance we advise you to change any passwords you have associated with other Codemasters accounts. If you use the same login information for other sites, you should change that information too. Furthermore, be extra cautious of potential scams, via email, phone, or post that ask you for personal or sensitive information. Please note that Codemasters will never ask you for any payment data such as credit card numbers or bank account details, nor will Codemasters ask you for passwords or other personal identifying data. Be aware too of fraudulent emails that may outwardly appear to be from Codemasters with links inviting you to visit websites. The safest way to visit your favourite websites is always by typing in the address manually into the address bar of your browser.

Unfortunately, Codemasters is the latest victim in on-going targeted attacks against numerous game companies. We assure you that we are doing everything within our legal means to track down the perpetrators and take action to the full extent of the law.

We apologise for this incident and regret any inconvenience caused.

We are contacting all customers who may have been affected directly.

Should you have any concerns or wish to speak to a member of our Customer Services team, please email them at [email protected].

As long as Steam has their shit together. I'm cool

Best security checker we have had in a while.

Lol i just got a email saying i had a VIP pass xD
I thought i was winnor lol jks it came from codemasters so i stopped caring awhile ago :P

At least they took it like real men and didn't try to weasel out of the situation by blaming everybody around them.

Is it just me or everything is getting hacked lately?

Quote from NSX_FReeDoM :

Is it just me or everything is getting hacked lately?

There are a couple of groups who are hacking big companies to show how lax they are with the information we give them, as a sort of warning that since the advent of Facespace and the like, we've become very willing to put everything about us online. There was a time not so long ago, when you'd struggle to get someone's surname out of them.

I received that mail, and although they are really bad news, I'm happy for the way CM explained everything in detail, telling us waht and waht not is secure

Quote from breadfan :

At least they took it like real men and didn't try to weasel out of the situation by blaming everybody around them.

This.

They could of never told us anything. It's really nice to see they're not hiding from this incident and not acting like a dumbass company.

I wish them all the best...

Hopefully activision is next, they deserve it.

Good thing I'm that type of people who generally really dislike giving my personal information to the internet, or even registering to sites I don't really need...

Presumably PS3 is fine. :>

also all this faff about personal data loss doesn't bother me. Most people post everything on their gayspace or facetube or whatever and frankly this is more likely being done to "prove a point" rather than for malicious access of a load of 10 year olds bank accounts.

Move on.

Quote from mutt107 :

Hopefully activision is next, they deserve it.

EA really deserve it.

I've got a copy of DiRT 3 coming in the mail... does this mean I won't be able to unlock it and play it?

Quote from Sueycide_FD :

As long as Steam has their shit together. I'm cool

Dammit. You made me think what would happen if steam was hacked into D:

Quote from Uke :

Dammit. You made me think what would happen if steam was hacked into D:

Oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.

Quote from jrs_4500 :

I've got a copy of DiRT 3 coming in the mail... does this mean I won't be able to unlock it and play it?

Mne works fine on the PS3 and my VIP code too. fu.

Quote from Uke :

Dammit. You made me think what would happen if steam was hacked into D:

If that happened that lucky man would be provided with details of million credit cards... xD

Quote from Mysho :

If that happened that lucky man would be provided with details of million credit cards... xD

But that hacker still wouldn't be the worlds richest guy.

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Mne works fine on the PS3 and my VIP code too. fu.

Phew, what a relief. I've been looking forwards to it for a while. It's on its way from Australia, which means it could be another ten days... What do you mean fu.? It either means f--- you (idk why you'd be mad at me), or the first google definition which was a chinese first name.

Quote from Uke :

Dammit. You made me think what would happen if steam was hacked into D:

The world would most definitely end. 100% Sure of that. CSS and CS 1.6 Players can get pretty pissy.

They'd buy real M4s and AK's and rain down upon the Steam developers in a blood bath.

You might see a sudden improvement in college grades......and condom sales.

Quote from jrs_4500 :

What do you mean fu.? It either means f--- you (idk why you'd be mad at me), or the first google definition which was a chinese first name.

Why would I tell you because now you're going to be worrying what exactly I mean.

That is too much to give away.

Kung-"Fu."? amirite?