Video gaming site The Escapist reported that the game developer Crytek, Crysis best known for his series, took a number of websites offline after a security breach. The incident is believed to have been held Saturday, August 3, with the company to alert the players via email stating that, "We have recently become aware of any suspicious activity relating to certain websites Crytek, and acted quickly to take these sites offline for security reasons. "The crydev.net to account holders and mycrysis.com are prompted to change their password, Crytek has acknowledged that user information may have been stolen.
This is the latest in a high chain hacker attacks on designers and game developers. last month Creed developer Ubisoft Assassin had her raped Uplay service. the company said that no user data including passwords and payment information were obtained, but always advised players to change their login information. Around the same time, Venture beat confirmed with Metal Gear Solid publisher Konami that more than 35,000 player accounts were accessed illegally, with pirates apparently launch 4 million attempts to compromise the data in the space of a month. Konami announced later that the company had strengthened its security to ensure this does not happen again, but with so many examples of successful hacks on a number of different companies, questions are still asked as to why the information was so vulnerable in the first place. With digital sales soaring games, more and more people opt to pay directly on services like Steam Service Valve, and in the console stores like Xbox Live , PlayStation Network and Nintendo eShop. At present, it seems that these companies may have required advanced technology to create high quality games, but did not pay close enough attention to the privacy of their online customers.
If you have concerns about the defense systems installed on your computer, you can try using a VPN service. The VPN functions as an additional security layer that sits between the data stored on your device and any individual or group to try to access it.
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