Bioware hacked, data taken from... decade-old Neverwinter forum?

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http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/06/bioware-hacked-data-taken-from-decades-old-neverwinter-forum.ars

Bioware hacked, data taken from... decade-old Neverwinter forum?
By Ben Kuchera | Published June 16, 2011 8:55 AM

Now that we live in a world where everyone is going to get hacked at some 
point, it's apparently Bioware's turn. The company has released a 
statement detailing an attack and the amount of data that was stolen by 
the guilty parties. It's not as bad as it could have been, but this is a 
disclosure no company wants to make.

The hacker gained access to a "decade-old" community server that handled 
the Neverwinter Nights forum. "We have determined that no credit card data 
was compromised, nor did we ever have or store sensitive data like social 
security numbers," Aaryn Flynn, the Studio GM of BioWare Edmonton wrote on 
the official forum. "However hackers may have obtained information such as 
user account names and passwords, e-mail addresses, and birth dates of 
approximately 18,000 accounts.a very small percentage of total users."

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