Has anyone else received a message from White Wolf regarding their site being hacked and customer information from their online store being compromised? I just received this earlier today.
It mentions they don't think anyone grabbed credit card data, but just in case, I've cancelled my credit cards to have new ones renewed, and changed the passwords on my bank account.
Thankfully it appears that the warning has come out fairly early in the process.
Banshee
Here's the message...
"Dear White Wolf Users,
Like many other well-known companies of the last few years, White
Wolf was the target of an attack by international hackers this
weekend. These hackers are now attempting to extort money from us
with the threat of posting user data to the internet. We have no
intention of paying this money, and are in contact with the FBI in an
attempt to bring these criminals to justice.
We are choosing to make this public so that our users and fans can
take any precautions needed to protect themselves. We are
recommending that if you have used your White Wolf user password as
the password for any other services you use on the internet, that you
change them immediately.
These hackers were able to exploit a flaw in our software and access
user data, this data included usernames, email addresses and
encrypted passwords. As far as we can ascertain, they were unable to
access any credit card data (nor have they claimed they did).
However, it is possible for the encrypted passwords they accessed to
be decrypted given enough time.
In addition, the site will be down for the next few days while we
evaluate some of the software we are using and take appropriate
action to help prevent future attacks.
We appreciate your patience and concern while we work through the
details of this process.
In addition to this posting we will be emailing our userbase with
this information. For correspondence regarding this, please direct
all queries to wwaccounts@white-wolf.com .
--
Conrad Hubbard
White Wolf Publishing
http://www.white-wolf.com"
It mentions they don't think anyone grabbed credit card data, but just in case, I've cancelled my credit cards to have new ones renewed, and changed the passwords on my bank account.
Thankfully it appears that the warning has come out fairly early in the process.
Banshee
Here's the message...
"Dear White Wolf Users,
Like many other well-known companies of the last few years, White
Wolf was the target of an attack by international hackers this
weekend. These hackers are now attempting to extort money from us
with the threat of posting user data to the internet. We have no
intention of paying this money, and are in contact with the FBI in an
attempt to bring these criminals to justice.
We are choosing to make this public so that our users and fans can
take any precautions needed to protect themselves. We are
recommending that if you have used your White Wolf user password as
the password for any other services you use on the internet, that you
change them immediately.
These hackers were able to exploit a flaw in our software and access
user data, this data included usernames, email addresses and
encrypted passwords. As far as we can ascertain, they were unable to
access any credit card data (nor have they claimed they did).
However, it is possible for the encrypted passwords they accessed to
be decrypted given enough time.
In addition, the site will be down for the next few days while we
evaluate some of the software we are using and take appropriate
action to help prevent future attacks.
We appreciate your patience and concern while we work through the
details of this process.
In addition to this posting we will be emailing our userbase with
this information. For correspondence regarding this, please direct
all queries to wwaccounts@white-wolf.com .
--
Conrad Hubbard
White Wolf Publishing
http://www.white-wolf.com"
