Popular Gaming Forums Hacked

It’s possible that any private information stored or sent by members of many Epic Games forums may have been accessed. The company on July 14, 2015 notified users by email that most of its gaming communities have been taken offline, after an online attack.

The incident also may have compromised forum members’ usernames, email addresses, passwords, and dates of birth provided at registration.

The affected Epic Games site covers UDK, Infinity Blade, Gears of War, Bulletstorm, and prior Unreal Tournament games. Separate forum sites for Unreal Engine 4, Fortnite, and the new Unreal Tournament are safe.

According to ZDNet, outdated software may be to blame. The communities were running an unpatched version of VBulletin. Separately, two years ago, the software company itself was hit by a hack, resulting in the loss of hundreds of thousands of VBulletin usernames and passwords.