{"id":136870,"date":"2022-03-15T00:03:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T07:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/gaming-company-ubisoft-confirms-it-was-hacked-resets-staff-passwords"},"modified":"2022-03-15T00:03:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T07:03:06","slug":"gaming-company-ubisoft-confirms-it-was-hacked-resets-staff-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/gaming-company-ubisoft-confirms-it-was-hacked-resets-staff-passwords","title":{"rendered":"Gaming Company Ubisoft Confirms It was Hacked, Resets Staff Passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gaming-company-ubisoft-confirms-it-was-hacked-resets-staff-passwords2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>French video game company Ubisoft on Friday confirmed it was a victim of a \u201ccyber security incident,\u201d causing temporary disruptions to its games, systems, and services.<\/p>\n<p>The Montreuil-headquartered firm said that an investigation into the breach was underway and that it has initiated a company-wide password reset as a precautionary measure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, we can confirm that all our games and services are functioning normally and that at this time there is no evidence any player personal information was accessed or exposed as a by-product of this incident,\u201d the company <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ubisoft.com\/en-gb\/article\/3tSsBh25mhHhlbGSy1xbRw\/ubisoft-cyber-security-incident-update\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French video game company Ubisoft on Friday confirmed it was a victim of a \u201ccyber security incident,\u201d causing temporary disruptions to its games, systems, and services. The Montreuil-headquartered firm said that an investigation into the breach was underway and that it has initiated a company-wide password reset as a precautionary measure. \u201cAlso, we can confirm [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}