Bethesda hacked, user information at risk

Bethesda was the latest victim of the recent hack attacks surging through the gaming industry.

As has been the case with all of the other attacks, personal information such as user names, e-mail addresses, and passwords were compromised. Financial information was not at risk.

Bethesda has urged all of its account users to change their passwords immediately in order to protect themselves.

They had the following to say about the attack:

Over the past weekend, a hacker group attempted an unlawful intrusion of our websites to gain access to data. We believe we have taken appropriate action to protect our data against these attacks. While no personal financial information or credit card data was obtained, the hackers may have gained access to some user names, email addresses, and/or passwords. As a precaution, we recommend that all our fans immediately change passwords on all our sites — including our community forums, statistics site for Brink, and here on the blog.

If your username/email address/password is similar to what you use on other sites, we recommend changing the password at those sites as well. As we don’t know what further plans the hackers may have, we suggest that you keep an eye out for suspicious emails and account activity.

We regret any inconvenience that these attacks on us cause for you. These attacks will be evaluated to determine if there are any additional protections we might take that would be prudent.

Infamous hacker organization LulzSec claimed responsibility for the attack. The group was also behind the PlayStation Network and several other hacks popping up in recent news.