BioWare was quick to confirm that no credit card details or payment information were lost during the recent hack. While attacks on high-profile gaming companies have been frequent of late, it’s good to know that this time nobody’s financial information has been breached. However, that’s not to say that BioWare’s servers got away unscathed.
Information on a user database such as user names, encrypted passwords, email addresses, mailing addresses, names, phone numbers, CD Keys and birth dates were taking from the servers, meaning that if you have an account with BioWare or even an EA Games Account, you should immediately go there and reset your password. Go and do that now, we’ll wait. Good? Okay, let’s move on.
Bioware apologized for the breach, closing with a personal statement and some advice to go with it:
As more features with gaming are becoming integrated with mainstream online structures, it seems gamers have most of their identity ready to be taken in the digital era of the internet. We here at Game Rant would like to remind you that it’s always best to use different passwords on each website and account you make, so that in the case of a data breach, you won’t be in jeopardy everywhere else as well. Gaming is a great part of life, and it’s a shame people will use that to try and gain financial or personal advantage at another’s expense.
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