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PSA: Hackers hit World of Warcraft emulator TurtleWoW’s account database
As regular readers know, it's not our policy to report on emulators for MMORPGs that are actively running, and there are few that are...
Apex Legends esports tourney is hacked mid-match, postponing the event and raising security concerns
Nobody likes to see cheaters win in an esports competition (or any competition for that matter), but a bout of cheating occurring in an...
‘Professional fraudsters’ admit the 189GB hack of Epic Games was a hoax supposedly used to get $85K
Last week news broke of a supposed hack of Epic Games in which a hacker gang called Mogilevich claimed to have gotten away with...
Epic Games rebuts ransomware gang’s 189GB data hack claim
This story looks to be a case of not everything posted on the internet is true: A ransomware gang made a bold claim on...
Valheim’s Discord server is finally back up after a nasty hack of its dev team
On Monday, we covered an emerging fiasco happening over in the Valheim community: The game's Discord and multiple developer Discord accounts had been hacked,...
PSA: Valheim’s Discord and two Iron Gate Discord accounts have apparently been hacked
Bad news bears for survival sandbox Valheim tonight, as apparently hackers have taken over the game's Discord - as well as some of the...
Guild Wars 2 studio says no accounts involved in new social engineering claim were compromised by CS
The Guild Wars 2 Reddit community has been up in arms this week over a gigantic thread started by former ArenaNet partner and content...
Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore loses 17,000 player accounts in ransomware hack
Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore is currently on track to emerge from 2023 as one of the most battered and bruised MMORPGs on the market....
Fractured Online’s player city restoration is underway following malicious hack last weekend
Since this past weekend, the fledgling second early access of Fractured Online has been tarnished by the actions of a malicious hacker, who according...
Fractured Online hopes to restore its player cities today after nasty weekend hack
There's no doubt that it has been hard times at the Fractured Online ranch this past weekend. This early access sandbox endured a nightmare...
Fractured Online suffers a nasty admin hack that sees every player city in the game wiped out
The relaunched early access world of Fractured Online has suffered something of an apocalypse as Dynamight Studios CEO Jacopo Gallelli reported on Discord early...
Yet another Sony data breach sees personal info of nearly 7000 employees exposed
Just a few weeks ago, we covered a supposed breach of Sony's systems, whereby ransomware hackers claimed they had "compromissed all of sony...
Sony is investigating claims that hackers ‘compromissed all of sony systems’ – big sigh
Can the console wars get any dumber? Oh, you already know the answer to that: Last night, a relatively new hacker group claimed responsibility...
Riot Games says it won’t be extorted by hackers who breached League of Legends’ source code
Last weekend, Riot Games told fans of its games that it had been hit with a social engineering attack that led to the compromise...
A nasty account-destroying exploit is currently ruining Grand Theft Auto Online
Grand Theft Auto Online is apparently suffering from a nasty exploit that's allowing exploiters to muck up fellow players' accounts and gameplay.
The issue was...
ROSE Online’s early access launch is waylaid by a user data leak that forces the game offline for recoding
Veterans of our genre know that MMORPG launches are never smooth, but some launches can go far worse than others. That sadly appears to...
Blizzard shuts down a major Overwatch 2 cheat software provider
You have to be a special, artisanal, distinct kind of lamesauce to buy software to cheat in a shooter game, but that is regrettably...
Wizard101 admits the in-game alert system hijacking last weekend was an external hack
Over the weekend, we covered the bizarre news that someone was filling up Wizard101's in-game alert system with malicious text and vulgar messages attacking...
Someone hijacked Wizard101’s in-game alert feed to spam toxicity
Wizard101 is normally associated with kid-friendly fun, but over the past weekend it got decidedly more adult in terms of its language as someone...
Axie Infinity CEO caught shuffling $3M in the game’s crypto tokens before announcing its $620M hack
No matter how decentralized cryptocurrencies claim to be, there's always going to be a paper trail to follow, and one such trail was left...
