A hacker using sql injection user names and passwords managed to get hold of the free playable moba game Heroes of Newerth. The game is taken offline and players are advised to change their password if they also have other accounts to use.
A hacker who hides behind the nick Ryan_HTP via sql injection to access the database of S2 Games, the owner of Heroes of Newerth. The hacker deletes the database to download with user names and passwords of players of the the free playable moba game. The database was protected, but the burglar knew that is easy to work around. He has S2 of the hack on the informed, which the American company with the servers of the game offline is impressive.
Ryan_HTP states that he the vulnerabilities of the system public, but will only do if S2 the security holes in poem. S2 Games recommends that players in the meantime on to the password of their HoN account, not yet to change. The developer advises players, however, have to enter the password of other accounts to change if that is the same as their HoN account. Ryan_HTP makes his burglary use of a known method. There are the last years a lot of account information stolen via sql injection, a method which is very simple to perform. So earlier this year, this account information is captured from Adobe, Yahoo, and Bol.com.