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postheadericon Codemasters' customer data compromised

British game developer recently to accept the loss of players 'personal information, names, addresses, phone numbers and threatens all gamertags.

Last week Nintendo and Sony, Eidos Montreal in the ranks of those games that companies that had security problems, and now British developer Codemasters has joined the club on. The company confirmed today that it is a "invasion" last Friday, June 3 and has since determined that the user data would be undermined established.

Snow isn 'to only danger is waiting Dirt 3' s players.

According to Codemasters, was the compromise of data for users of the editor 's corporate website, dirt eStore page 3 VIP redemption code and Codemasters. Personal information such as names, addresses, birth dates, gamer tags and encrypted passwords were called by the developer.

This is the second problem, the best Dirt 3 VIP code, the company 's first attempt, the used car market the game through the clustering of single-use codes to unlock some resources to fight with new copies of the game. PlayStation 3 owners had failed their codes through the PSN Store is to save money, and so could not get the win in game benefits.

Codemasters has apologized for the incident, said he was "the latest victim of targeted attacks against the run of play several companies." The prosecutor also said it was to "do everything to make our legal resources to track criminals and measures the full extent of the law ".

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"The Codemasters 'Customer Data risk' was written by Alex Sassoon Coby on Thu, 10 Jun 2011 13:31:13 -0700 wrote

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