EA has to say as a precaution, the Battlefield Heroes servers offline. The publisher wants the potential consequences of investigate of the database dump that the hackergroepering LulzSec last Sunday published.
On the website of the free-to-play game Battlefield Heroes is to read the site until further notice, is closed. Electronic Arts states that it is an internal investigation has been launched into a suspected by LulzSec performed the hack.
At the hack are more than 500,000 user names and encrypted passwords from a beta version of Battlefield Heroes captured. EA claims that there are, in all likelihood, any personal information such as e-mail addresses or credit card numbers are stolen in the Sunday published ‘dump’ of LulzSec.
The now defunct hackersgroepering the past few months several times, his arrows aimed at speluitgevers. So were Nintendo and gameontwikkelaar Bethesda attacked. Although there are no data from Nintendo by LulzSec have been published, put the hackers or user data of Bethesda online.
Update, 13:45: Battlefield Heroes is now playable. Electronic Arts has the service resumed after its own investigation. That research is not completed yet, but apparently eight EA it was safe enough to return to play. According to the publisher, his nicknames and passwords stolen from an early beta test of the game, but no personal data like email addresses and credit card numbers.