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Change those passwords: Epic Games’ forums hacked

Epic Games today advised its forums have been hacked. Time to change those passwords.

“We have just discovered that the Epic Games forums were compromised by a hacker,” Epic advised via email. “We are sorry to report that the incident may have resulted in unauthorized access to your username, email address, password, and the date of birth you provided at registration.”

Affected forums appear to deal with UDK, Infinity Blade, Gears of War, Bulletstorm and older Unreal Tournament titles.


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