Thread: Epic Games - site hacked

The site of the developer Epic Games has been target of a hackerattack. The site and the associated Forum had therefore to be takensome time from the Internet for. The stated Tim Sweeney, a founder ofthe company, in an email.Epic is the developer of Gears of War gamesand most recently published the brutal shooter Bullet Storm . He isalso the programmer of the Unreal engine, known as the license as thebasis for many other games serves.



In the case of the EpicHack but weighs less serious consequences such as Sony, because Epicdoes not request any personal information from users. The intruderswere able to steal only the e-mail addresses and associatedpasswords, but which are encrypted. Sweeney recommends all partiesconcerned, immediately after the login to the website to change thepassword. Users should not have used the same password for otheronline services that this should also be changed.