Ubisoft Password Leak
Kristin Klodzinski
Ubisoft's IT team is currently working with cybersecurity experts to investigate the situation and, as of now, has decided to initiate a company-wide password reset. However, no further security measures or changes have been made public.
Furthermore, the company says that games and services are now working properly, and there is no evidence, at present, of "any player personal information [being] accessed or exposed as a by-product of this incident."
"We are aware that the threat actor took employee passwords and some Nvidia proprietary information from our systems and has begun leaking it online," the vendor responded at the time the incident was made public. "Our team is working to analyze that information. All employees have been required to change their passwords."
According to a Telegram group chat allegedly operated by LAPSUS$, there has been a "delay" in further Nvidia releases due to "one of our members begging Nvidia for stupid amounts of money." (The post has since been deleted).
In December 2021, Ubisoft said a cyberattack had been launched against the infrastructure supporting the game Just Dance. This incident was caused by a "misconfiguration" that has since been resolved.
This is not the first cybersecurity issue Ubisoft has faced. It also suffered a security breach in 2020, when it fell victim to a ransomware attack. Further back in 2013, hackers stole the data of an estimated 58 million users.
Fortunately, the cybersecurity company, Trend Micro, have recently released an app specifically designed to meet the challenges that data leaks bring.
Available on Android and iOS, ID Security scours the dark web for any mention of your data (email address, passwords, codes etc.) in the event of it being sold or maliciously shared by cybercriminals. Its key features include:
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Ubisoft are doing "30 Days Of Giveaways" as a sort of advent calendar-cum-LinkedIn workiversary thing. It's a holiday season daily offer to coincide with the fact Ubi have existed for 30 years. I think thirtieth anniversaries are supposed to be pearl things but the most recent thing pearl-related fact I learned was that pearlfish live up the butts of sea cucumbers so maybe it's just as well I wasn't involved in the planning for this event.
If you were considering picking up some Ubi things in the Steam Sale it might also be worth looking at the Ubi store today, in that case, as it looks like Far Cry 4 is a bit cheaper (7.47 for the regular edition while it's 12.49 on Steam) and there's an extra quid off Far Cry Primal - things like that. I assume the difference would be needing to remember your Uplay password.
It looks like yesterday's deal (Rayman Classic for mobile as a free download) is also still live so I'm wondering if some of these offers will persist for the duration of the calendar. AH: "You can sign up anytime during the 30 day period. However some giveaways are of limited quantity and will be provided on a first come first serve basis. Others will be limited to certain dates and will not be available during the entire giveaway."
There's a Reddit thread based on source code which suggests what the upcoming offers might be, although Ubi might end up switching them around now they're "known" as they've already removed assets related to the leak. The day 2 info is already slightly off as the data stated "30% off Ubisoft Games" although that might have just been out of date naming. The thread suggests free PC games are coming, repeats from Ubisoft's 30th birthday giveaways including Rayman Origins and The Crew.
I'm interested to see if they still do the Ubisoft Cocktail Recipe day. I've been brainstorming this and I feel like there's mileage in dropping a shot into a glass of booze from a great height and calling it Ezio's Swandive or something. Or you could get someone else to next to you and try to drink big gulps of your drink and call it the Vivendi. This is a business joke about the rumoured hostile takeover attempt.
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