Kixeye got hacked!!!

this was the response from Kixeye when their own forums got hacked. This is ridiculous now What are they going to do about this growing problem? Not only are these Hackers ruining our gaming experience it is also wrecking the forums where we can get necessary information!!!

About Password Changes

Early this morning (March 1) there was a minor defacement of the forum, and for several minutes the forum index page was being routed to a CGI error page. Many different forums across the web were attacked all at the same time, and in the same way. This was not a “hack” of our forum software in any way.

However, as a precautionary measure, because we take security seriously, we are asking all forum members to please change your passwords. Your forum passwords are encrypted, and we have no reason to believe that anyone has broken that encryption or accessed this data, but it’s a good practice to change your password every so often anyway. Some of you haven’t changed your password in almost two years!

If you registered on the forum using Facebook Connect, note that you might still be asked to change your forum password. If this happens, you can simply enter a new password when asked. This will not affect your ability to use Facebook Connect in the future and you do not need to change your Facebook password.

However, if you registered on the forum separately and your password happens to be the same as your Facebook profile, we suggest you change it to something else in Facebook as well. Again, this is just precautionary and good security.

On a final related note, if by any chance you ever receive an email from someone claiming to be from KIXEYE, but the address is not from someone, “@kixeye.com”, it is a fraud so do NOT open it, or (if you do open it accidentally), do not click on any links within it. And if you’re not sure, ask us!

If you have any questions, please post them in this thread. Thanks!

P.S. If you haven't been asked by the forum to change your password, you can always change it yourself by going to http://forums.kixeye.com/profile.php?do=editpassword.