Ubisoft has been hacked. Or as the French publisher of Far Cry, Watch Dogs, and Assassin's Creed preferred to call it, a "cyber security incident." Ubisoft says that there's no evidence that passwords or personal info were leaked in the "incident," but the company issued an organization-wide password reset just in case.
"Last week, Ubisoft experienced a cyber security incident that caused temporary disruption to some of our games, systems, and services," wrote Ubisoft in its blog yesterday. "Our IT teams are working with leading external experts to investigate the issue. As a precautionary measure, we initiated a company-wide password reset.
"Also, we can confirm that all our games and services are functioning normally and that at this time there is no evidence any player personal information was accessed or exposed as a by-product of this incident."
So far, no group has come forward to claim responsibility for the hack or make demands. We’ll be sure to keep an eye on this story to see if a hacker group steps forward.
Ubisoft’s hack comes just a few weeks after Nvidia was “completely compromised” by a hacker group called Lapsus. After making off with over a terabyte of data, the group then demanded Nvidia make its drivers and chip architecture open source. When Nvidia refused, the group released the DLSS source code, the private information of over 70,000 current and former employees, and finally Nvidia’s security certificates so other hackers could start making fake drivers full of malware.
And then because Lapsus wasn't done, they hacked Samsung and stole 190GB of data. Once again, the hackers made off with source code, security tech, and data surrounding Samsung's biometric unlock operations.
This might be beating a dead horse, but y'all should turn on two-factor authentication everywhere you can and stay away from suspicious emails and text messages. Hackers are out in force these days.