Everyone Should Change Their Uplay Password
Posted by Giant Bomb Jul 02 2013 16:50 GMT in Gaming News
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Is it time to finally invest in 1Password? Maybe so. Ubisoft has revealed new details about a recent website exploit that exposed its account database, including “user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords.”

“We recently found that one of our Web sites was exploited to gain unauthorized access to some of our online systems,” said the company in a statement on its forums. “We instantly took steps to close off this access, to begin a thorough investigation with relevant authorities, internal and external security experts, and to start restoring the integrity of any compromised systems.”

Encrypted passwords means the passwords themselves were not exposed in their pure form, but if a particular password isn’t very strong, it wouldn’t take much trouble for it to be deciphered.

Ubisoft said payment information was not exposed, so your debit and credit card should be safe.

If your Uplay password is one shared among other web services, it’s time to change all of those, too.


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How is this so *crag*ing hard for multi-million/billion companies to *crag*ing do.
Reply by Fortran Jul 02 2013 19:47 GMT
good thing I have nothing invested in uplay other than a gamerscore thing
Reply by Super-Claus Jul 02 2013 21:40 GMT
Claus no one cares about their Uplay account, they care that the email and password they used for it is the same one they use for everything else.
Reply by Francis Jul 03 2013 01:29 GMT
I don't even know what Uplay is honestly.
Reply by Fortran Jul 03 2013 01:40 GMT
oh no someones gonna hack my digibutter account halp pls
Reply by Super-Claus Jul 03 2013 02:02 GMT
I don't have a Uplay..but I use the same username (and password) for most sites.
Good thing too!
Reply by JacobDaGun Jul 03 2013 03:21 GMT
Why would you say that to anyone anywhere.
How stupid are you?
Reply by hero of time Jul 03 2013 03:38 GMT
Even if they get the hashed passwords it's still gonna take a while for them to brute force through all several thousand plus of them, if they even bother doing more than just pairing up email addresses with the more common passwords (12345, abcde etc.) and taking them to other sites where those users are also registered.
Reply by Gold Prognosticus Jul 03 2013 06:34 GMT
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