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We Know How Much Crytek Pays for DRM in Crysis Remastered

Adrian Werner, 25 November 2020, 13:25

Thanks to the documents recently stolen by hackers, we found out how much Crytek paid for using the Denuvo DRM system.

Street Fighter 6 Confirmed in Stolen Documents

Paul Musiolik, 19 November 2020, 17:03

A new leaka of documents stolen from Capcom's servers confirms that Street Fighter 6 is in the works and that it will be released on consoles and PCs.

Leaks Reveal Resident Evil Battle Royale Game From Capcom

Adrian Werner, 16 November 2020, 19:10

A number of Capcom's internal documents have leaked as a result of a hacker attack. According to them, PC ports of Monster Hunter: Rise and Monster Hunter Stories 2, among others, are being prepared. In addition, the publisher was to receive $10 million for adding several Resident Evil games to Google Stadia.

Watch Dogs Legion's Source Code Has Gone Public

Karol Laska, 03 November 2020, 22:30

560 GB of data from Watch Dogs: Legion was releases by the hacker group Egregor. This is a consequence of not yielding to the demands issued by the group a few weeks ago.

Hackers Threaten to Publish Source Code of Watch Dogs Legion

Adrian Werner, 16 October 2020, 15:27

Hackers from a group called Egregor reported that they stole data from Ubisoft and Crytek. The source code of Watch Dogs: Legion is said to be among them.

Data of Half a Million Activision Accounts Leaked [Updated]

Jacob Blazewicz, 22 September 2020, 10:15

Activision has become a target of hackers. According to numerous sources, data of at least 500 thousand users was leaked as a result of a recent successful hack into the company's servers.

Intel has a Problem - 20 GB of Classified Data and Tools Have Leaked

Bart Swiatek, 07 August 2020, 11:33

There has been a major leak of classified data at Intel. A 20-gigabyte package containing, among other things, CPU blueprints and tools used by the company's employees has surfaced online.

The Last of Us 2 - Hackers Likely to be Responsible for Recent Leak

Adrian Werner, 04 May 2020, 13:51

We learned more about the videos from The Last of Us: Part 2 that were recently leaked. Much suggests that hackers who used the keys from Naughty Dog's earlier games to get to the TLoU2 movies are responsible for this.

Hackers May Have Gained Data From 160,000 Nintendo Accounts

Jacob Blazewicz, 24 April 2020, 18:14

Nintendo has commented on unauthorised logins to Nintendo Account. According to the company, hackers may have used data related to about 160,000 Nintendo Network accounts.

Valve: CS:GO Source Code Leak Poses No Threat to Gamers

Jacob Blazewicz, 23 April 2020, 13:02

Valve commented on yesterday's leak of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Team Fortress 2 source code. We were assured that the situation does not pose any threat to users playing on official servers.

Turns out Sensitive Data of 270 Million People are Not Worth Much

Mateusz Popielak, 22 April 2020, 16:42

The profiles of millions of Facebook users have leaked to the Dark Web. They could be bought in the form of a list for 500 euros.

Nintendo Targeted by Hackers? Rumors of User Data Leak

Jacob Blazewicz, 20 April 2020, 21:23

Internet users report suspicious activities on their Nintendo accounts. Many users noticed unauthorized login attempts, which in some cases resulted in the use of related PayPal accounts and payment cards.

App For Tracking Coronavirus Turn Out to be Ransomware

Laty, 16 March 2020, 11:37

The ransomware software called „CovidLock” infects Android smartphones when users install the coronavirus case tracking application. Hackers block the phone and demand a ransom in exchange for access.

Google Messes Up; Private Videos Sent to Wrong Users

Laty, 05 February 2020, 15:34

Google recently informed its customers that in November last year those who requested a backup of their files may have receive videos belonging to other users.

Millions of Microsoft's Customer Data Records Leaked

Conrad Hazi, 23 January 2020, 14:34

The end of 2019 must have been really unpleasant for Microsoft. It turned out that due to a security error in the database, more than 250 million records with user information were publicly available. The gap was patched up immediately after detection.

Chinese Government Accuses Xiaomi and Tencent of Illegal Data Collection

Laty, 23 December 2019, 13:14

The Chinese government has issued a statement accusing giants such as Xiaomi and Tencent of illegal data collection in their country. The published list includes 41 applications that have violated the regulations.

Possible Leak of Nexus Mods User Data

Laty, 20 December 2019, 12:10

The creators of Nexus Mods, a website enabling users from all over the world share their work and others to download it, published a disturbing statement yesterday. Its content suggests that the data of website's users may have ended up in the wrong hands.

Trend Micro Employee Stole and Traded Customer Data

Laty, 08 November 2019, 13:18

Trend Micro is a large corporation and one of the leaders in the cyber security industry. Its employee committed data theft of nearly 70,000 users, including telephone numbers. It is not known which company the acquired information was sold to.

Facebook: 419 Million User Phone numbers Leaked

Barth Faryna, 06 September 2019, 22:03

Facebook's got another big flop. A total of 419 million Facebook user phone numbers were found on a server, which could be accessed by almost anyone because it was not even password-protected.

ZAO - Popular Chinese Alternative to FaceApp May be Dangerous

Konrad Serafinski, 03 September 2019, 12:05

The Chinese application ZAO, which allows you to superimpose your face in a video or photo, breaks records of popularity. In an instant, it became the most popular downloadable program in the Chinese App Store and... a true deep-fake machine.

E3 Leaks Personal Data of More Than 2,000 Participants

Konrad Serafinski, 04 August 2019, 18:15

Personal data of over 2,000 E3 2019 participants leaked to the web. The list of victims include journalists, YouTubers and developers. Michal Manka, the editor of our sister website GryOnline, commented on the whole situation and its consequences.

Facebook Faces Record Financial Penalty; Company's Stocks Go Up

Paul Wozniak, 15 July 2019, 15:22

The Federal Trade Commission has accepted an agreement whereby Facebook will have to pay USD 5 billion. The record amount did not deter investors, and the company's stock prices increased by almost 2%.

Halo: Reach Beta Leaked. Play it, and You Will be Banned

Julia Dragovic, 01 July 2019, 11:41

Halo: Reach PC beta has been leaked to the Internet. By downloading or playing a copy of the trial version, you are risking a ban to all of the developer's games - including those that have not yet been created.

Popular Android Apps Were Stealing User Data

ElMundo, 23 April 2019, 15:06

Six popular applications from one of the Chinese developers, which we can find in the Google Play store, stole users' data without their knowledge. Suspicious programs have already been removed from the database.

Facebook Illicitly Processed User E-mail Data

ElMundo, 19 April 2019, 12:42

Facebook user data managing gets another black eye – this time, a representatives of the service admitted that the service used data obtained from e-mail accounts of about 1.5 million users without the consent of individual persons.

Valve Will Examine Copying of Steam Data by Epic Games Store

Michael Kulakowski, 17 March 2019, 00:45

Valve has answered the controversies related to Epic Games Store client, which allegedly downloads sensitive user data related to their Steam account.

Epic Games Denies Accusations of Using Steam Data

Jacob Blazewicz, 15 March 2019, 21:23

Another day, another Epic Games Store controversy. The online community believes that the platform downloads sensitive user data from Steam files, including friend lists and stats on the games they have played. Epic Games denied the accusations.

Epic Games Store Lacks Even Most Basic Account Security Measures

Christian Pieniazek, 05 March 2019, 22:38

Registering an account on Epic Games Store is as easy as pie – the user isn't even obliged to verify the email address they've provided.

The largest stolen data dump ever discovered

Frozen, 18 January 2019, 23:38

The file containing data of almost 773 million e-mail addresses was available to the public on a popular hosting service. The information came from attacks on thousands of different websites.

Another Fallout 76 scandal: customer data leaked

Adrian Werner, 06 December 2018, 14:48

Another affair with Bethesda and Fallout 76 in the spotlight. An error in the game's tech support system allowed players to view other users' data for some time, including phone numbers and home addresses.

Thieves threaten to reveal Cyberpunk 2077 documents

luckie, 09 June 2017, 10:24

Players are eager to hear more about Cyberpunk 2077, the next RPG from creators of The Witcher series. Some even don't hesitate to steal the information.