Epic Games forums hacked

Users of Epic Games forums have been informed by e-mail this morning that the forums have been hacked and that there was potential for users’ passwords to be compromised and so steps have been taken to stop any further compromises:

Dear [my epic username],

Our Epic Games web sites and forums were recently hacked.  After some downtime, they’re back up and running now.

The hackers may have obtained the email addresses and encrypted passwords of forum users. Plaintext passwords weren’t revealed, but it’s possible that those passwords could be obtained by a brute-force attack on the encrypted passwords. Therefore, we have reset all passwords.  Your new password at the bottom of this message.

The Unreal Developer Network (UDN) hasn’t been compromised.  Thankfully, none of our web sites ask for, or store, credit card information or other financial data.

We’re sorry for the inconvenience, and appreciate everyone’s patience as we wrestle our servers back under control.

Tim Sweeney
Founder, Epic Games Inc

The good news is that Epic Games has taken the sensible step in resetting all passwords. Of course if you happen to have used the same password for the e-mail address that’s associated with your forum account with Epic – you may want to go and change that.