EA Hacked

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110624/wr_nm/us_electronicarts_hackers

This is getting old.

No, EA had it coming for a long, long time. No one in the hacking spree but EA deserved it the most. So, this is not old

$10 says Activision's next.

You have got to be kidding me.... that kind of attitude is what lead to these crimes.

Believe me, I would've yelled a lot at JAF for his very blatant Sony hate or stuff, but you don't see me act out of spite in all these hacking news. Hacking into any company in itself is a crime, but the act of hacking was all out of spite, and therein lies a lesson

Should companies treat customers as they are or are they right in continuing to think that customers are goldfishes? Even moreso for EA, a company that had degraded considerably before year 2000 while roots of executive idiocy ran deep

edited 25th Jun '11 8:05:36 AM by Cassie

I wouldn't really mind that attitude if the customers were unharmed.

So, Cassie, it's okay that thousands of people may have had their personal info compromised because the target of the attack was EA?

Do we know which site was hacked?

EA isn't as bad as they were last gen, so they don't deserve it.

However, by now there is an army of people working to hunt down these people, so I feel a bit safer.

^^ From the article:

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edited 25th Jun '11 9:02:36 AM by Nohbody

ah, so I don't have to change all my pws again.

Not if you're not doing anything regarding NWN, no.

It's not like I sit well with it in any context. The info compromising part always offends me. If by a chance, it could be accomplished in a way without harming the 'vital' details of other people around the globe, THEN I am happy

Strange that I've never used NWN, but I am associated with EA through Bad Company 2, and I wake up this morning to find that my MSN, and therefore my XBL account to which I signed up to EA, no longer works.

How about this.

I disagree with the hacking, and I hate the hackers...But if they hacked the personal information of JUST the bigshot ceos who do all the crappy marketing decisions I wouldn't be as upset.

And Kotick.

edited 25th Jun '11 10:00:37 AM by Thorn14

Ugh, I better go check mine then. First step is figuring out which of my 15 emails I used..

I would not be happy with anyone getting hacked unless they're terrorists or something.

If you wish ill on others, it may come to you instead.

Unauthorized hacking is a crime, no matter who the victim is.

You say that like there's authorized hacking.

Actually there is, a company can hire hackers to hack their own programs and patch them up to increase security.

Huh. Didn't know that.

Yeah, there's various steps though you have to take to avoid hiring a hacker that will leave an intentional backdoor to use, but then again, that goes for anything where you have programmers.

edited 25th Jun '11 10:55:37 AM by Usht

Yeah: think of it as "playtesting" your security system.

Man, another one? Who's keeping count? Is it just EA, Sony, and Nintendo, or have there been others?

It's like some sort of anti-video game crusade. It must be Jack Thompson!

Bethesda has also been hacked. I don't remember if there were others.