Some unknown hackers had hacked the official forum “forum.ea.com” by exploiting a vulnerability they identified in the software that runs the site. After some time company claimed in a statement that users data is safe and the vulnerability has been patched.
“As some of you noticed, the homepage of the forums was defaced by a hacker yesterday using a very new exploit for the software which runs the forums. This was noticed quickly and we took the action to take the forums offline while we investigated the details. This work is now complete, and the vulnerability we believe was used has now been fixed,”Company’s Marketing Manager Dan Sheridan said.
“There is no evidence that any personal data was compromised, and as passwords aren’t stored in a recoverable manor, we are confident they remain secure. Thank you for your patience whilst the forums were offline and we took the necessary steps to investigate this.”
EA has been targeting by hackers for few weeks. But this time the situation was not worse as compared to the last attack. EA has many apps related to game and other function. Hackers attack on these app and try to find the vulnerabilities to exploit.
