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• 3 million digital game keys leaked

  07.09.2011

  An cardinal oversight on a third party fulfillment agency website hosting activation keys for Codemasters’ DiRT 3 game has resulted in the leak of some 3 million keys that allow the game to be played for free on the Steam game platform.

• EA password reset due to LulzSec hack?

  29.06.2011

  Electronic Arts (EA) customers have been receiving emails from the company notifying them that their passwords have been reset "to ensure account security".

• Gamers breached medical server to play Call of Duty

  14.01.2011

  An office server on which the New Hampshire Seacoast Radiology had stored sensitive personal and medical information of more than 230,000 patients has been breached in November by hackers who used its bandwidth to play Call of Duty: Black Ops.

• E-commerce and online gaming phishing attacks surge

  18.11.2010

  Phishing attacks through impersonation of e-commerce sites and gaming companies increased significantly year-over-year around the world in the third quarter of 2010, according to IID. Instances when cyber criminals used likenesses of e-commerce companies, excluding eBay, to steal critical data from unsuspecting victims, were up 317 percent from July to September 2010 compared to the same time period in 2009.

• WoW players continually targeted by phishers

  20.10.2010

  WoW players are continually targeted by phishers, since account credentials can be easily sold.

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