Players of Funcom games have been hit with the grim news that forums associated with four of the developer's online games have suffered a data breach, with the studio resetting all s as a precaution.
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The news was delivered via emails to affected players and a notice on the studio's website, with the Norwegian company claiming forum s on TheSecretWorld.com, AgeofConan.com, Anarchy-Online.com and LongestJourney.com had been "compromised by a third party."
"We regret to inform you that the data breach includes e-mail addresses, names, and encrypted s associated with forum s on these forums," the developer stated.
"Even though s were encrypted, these can be cracked and should be considered compromised. It is important to note that forum s and game s are separate and are stored on different servers using different security systems. Game s have not been compromised."
Funcom claims the data breach came as a result of a security fault within the forums themselves, and as such has reset all s for every forum . s will need to reset their to continue and Funcom advises they also change their game s if they shared the same .
"We take this incident very seriously and will be taking measures to ensure it does not happen again," Funcom concluded. "The bug that made this data breach possible has been corrected, but as a precaution we have taken our forums offline so we can conduct further investigations and ensure there are no more security issues before we bring them online again."