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If you have an account on Supercell, the company behind popular games like Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, Boom Beach and Hay Day, then it is time to change your password at the earliest. Reportedly, over a million user accounts on Supercell’s community forum have been hacked and data traders are willing to swap the […]
Electronic Arts users are taking their questions on Twitter wondering why they are unable to connect to the servers. The service interruption started about two hours ago and since then users have been reporting the issue to the official support Twitter account of Electronic Arts. In a reply to one of those tweets, the EA support […]
E-Sports Entertainment Association, popularly known as ESEA is a well-known video gaming community. In fact, it is one of the largest of all video gaming communities across the globe. It is, therefore, not surprising that malicious cyber-criminals would look for a way to attack this particular platform. According to reports, ESEA website was hacked on […]
Short Bytes: Gaming on Linux is going to get better, thanks to the upcoming Steam support on Intel’s Clear Linux distribution. Currently focused on workstation and server performance, this OS already ships with latest Mesa stack. While Clear Linux doesn’t offer dedicated graphics support, it can surely help one build a good Steam gaming box with […]
A group is claiming to have carried out a successful distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Tumblr due to which the site went down this week and as a result, Tumblr was down on Wednesday for over 2 hours. This group of attackers goes by the handle of R.I.U. Star Patrol who state that they targeted […]
The famous DDoS attackers from Phantom Squad have claimed responsibility for conducting a series of powerful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) on Steam and online gaming platform Origin servers. Now, you must be wondering why? Well, that’s simply because Christmas is coming and for some reason unbeknown to anyone other than them, these attackers have developed a habit of targeting online […]
Super Mario game is loved by all, elders, adults and young ones alike. The game has been released on iOS but not on Android OS, yet. Android device owners have been waiting anxiously for the game to be released so that they could enjoy it while on the go. We do know that android users […]
If you are an Electronic Arts (EA) customer then don’t worry you are not alone since tons of other users are also complaining about EA servers being down. At the moment it is unclear what’s exactly going on but we can confirm that there hasn’t been any official tweet from EA Support twitter handle. It could be […]
Bug bounty programs are certainly the current rage among software developers and tech firms alike. The reason is that, through these reward programs, small time hackers and security experts all get a fair chance to polish and test their skills while the creators of the program/device get to know about potential vulnerabilities in their offerings […]
Are you unable to access your Electronic Arts and PlayStation Network account? Well, welcome to the party since you are not alone. A growing number of users are reporting on Twitter that they can’t access their accounts and it is unclear what is really going on. Looking at the official help account of Playstation one can see […]
Having trouble accessing your PlayStation Network account? You are not alone but Sony is denying suffering any security breach. A number of PSN users are complaining that their accounts are getting blocked and hacked — Sony, on the other hand, denies a there was a hack. In the last couple of days, a growing number […]
Origin-Based Games Blocked by Electronic Arts (EA) in Myanmar — Five other Countries are already blocked including Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Syria and Ukraine. If you are in Myanmar and can’t access Origin-based games then it’s not some DDoS attack on Electonic Arts servers, it’s just that the company has blocked origin games in your country. […]
The click me game malware is developed by Iranian hacker as its readme file is written in Persian. Karsten Hahn, a malware analyst at GData, has identified new ransomware that is currently in its developmental phase. According to Hahn’s analysis, the ransomware pretends to be a Click Me Game while its objective is the same, […]
It’s just another day and just another vendor selling databases of Brazzers, Epic Games, ClixSense on the Dark Web — Change your password if you have an account of any of these platforms. The Dark Web marketplaces have turned out to be the best platform for hackers to sell stolen data. Recently, one of HackRead’s reporters […]
The boy was found with a rope around his neck — According to his uncle and initial police report he accepted choking challenge after losing the game — The death may have been witnessed by three other gamers through the webcam. A 13-year-old boy died less than 24 hours after being found in his father’s […]
Evony gaming company had its website and forum breached and as a result 33 million of its gamers had their accounts stolen. In June 2016, the official website of Evony gaming company suffered a massive data breach in which 33,407,472 of its registered user accounts were stolen. Things couldn’t go worse when in August 2016, the […]
Steam users are again under the radar of cyber criminals — This time, hacked steam accounts have been found distributing Remote Access Trojan (RAT). Previously we informed our readers about the hacking of Steam accounts. Now a Reddit user is claiming that some of these hacked accounts are distributing malware. The user on Reddit who […]
The targeted site is called NewSeaSims and provides custom content for SIMS2 and SIMS3 video games. A hacker going by the handle of “Websites Hunter” who was previously found leaking personal details of Kuwait Automotive Imports Company’s customers is back with another hack. This time, he has breached a website that offers custom content for Sims video […]
Blizzard servers are down that’s because they are under a massive DDoS attack – Who’s behind this? it’s still unclear. It’s the third time this week that Gaming giant Blizzard has suffered a DDoS attack forcing its servers to go offline worldwide affecting latency/connections to their games. Gamers trying to login to Blizzard were either blocked or saw […]
PoodleCorp is back with a bang, this time, Blizzard servers are facing the wrath of this ruthless DDoSing group. The PoodleCorp hacking and DDoSing group have conducted a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) on the servers of gaming giant Blizzard forcing them to stay offline and left users wondering what’s really doing on. https://twitter.com/siegeh_/status/778534055054671872 Blizzard, on the […]
Fancy Bear Hackers have leaked yet another set of documents stolen from WADA server — This time, the group has targeted athletes from other countries as well and not just the United States. It looks like the Fancy Bear hackers are not done yet. After hacking the official website of World Anti-Doping Agency and Court of […]