News Tagged: hacking

Although Nintendo seems to be generally pleased with the launch of their new product, the Wii U, stories in the media aren't exactly painting a very pretty picture about the recently released console. For one thing, kids in the States have been noted to be more keen on Apple's iPad, rather than the Nintendo Wii U...

Word is that NVIDIA's official Forums are not working at the moment, as a result of a hacking attack. User information has been accessed in the process. Here's the message, as posted over at NVIDIA Forums: Our investigation has identified that unauthorized third parties gained access to some user information...

Following the report of Diablo 3 Battle.net accounts being hacked, Blizzard issues this massage to their customers and all the people of the world... everywhere (just kidding, it's only for those who bought their game(s), of course): We'd like to take a moment to address the recent reports that suggested that Battle...

Blizzard's current sensation that is better known to the whole bloody world as Diablo 3 may have suffered account hacks, that's according to the lads and ladies over at EG. As a result, gold items and such were stolen. Apparently, there were multiple reports of "Diablo 3 accounts being hacked, suggesting it is a growing issue...

According to video game publisher Square Enix, the company was forced to temporarily shut down its US and Japanese Square Enix Members sites in the wake of a possible hack. "We have reason to believe that unknown parties may have gained unauthorized access to a particular...

Valve confirmed that the Steam Users' Forums downtime, which happened earlier this week, were in fact the result of a break-in. Here the word from Valve's Gabe Newell, as he explains exactly what occurred: Dear Steam Users and Steam Forum Users, Our Steam forums were defaced on the evening of Sunday, November 6...

Another hack attempt, with QuakeCon forums as the target this time: In recent days, a hacker carried out an unlawful intrusion of the old forums.quakecon.org site, compromising usernames and passwords. While we have taken appropriate steps to protect the new forums from attack...

After yesterday's news that Sony sued PS3 hackers, we now found out the groups have responded to the company's claims. The group called fail0verflow -- partly responsible for reverse-engineering PS3's security key generation process -- responded: "Our motivation was Sony's removal of OtherOS...

Sony Computer Entertainment America is suing hacker George Hotz, as well as over 100 others (also members of fail0verflow), for publicly revealing the root key details and cracks for the corporation's console, the PlayStation 3. In case you were unaware, in 2010 Hotz published an exploit for the PS3...

There have been unconfirmed reports of numerous users experiencing "serious issues" on Sony's PlayStation Network. Supposedly, the issues involved hackers illegally accessing users' personal information. PS3 user Dom Guerrera says the credit card information that's kept on his PSN account was charged approx...

Sony's next PlayStation 3 firmware update (v3.21) has officially been projected for release on April 1. The interesting thing about this particular update is that it removes Linux support, in part to counter the efforts of iPhone hacker George Hotz -- a...