Developer Harmonix has accountbezitters of the muziekgames Rock Band and Dance Central, a warning is sent that the servers are probably being hacked. The company has passwords will be reset and the servers are taken offline, pending the outcome of the research.
The warning has gone out to all users who have an account on rockband.com, dancecentral.com and creators.rockband.com. “We are investigating a probable hack on our servers last week detected,” wrote Harmonix in the message. The listed sites have been taken offline, and the game developer investigates whether there is user data in the wrong hands.
Harmonix says still no evidence that account information leaked or misused. There would in any case not have a credit card or other financial data of users on the conscious systems have been. As a precaution, Harmonix all passwords are reset, given and the company recommends that users also other to reset passwords, if it is identical to that of the Harmonix account.
The likely attack is just another in a long series of database breaches at game companies. The best-known of them is the hack of Playstation Network in 2011.