In a recently released statement, Square Enix has confirmed that the publisher’s Eidosmontreal.com website, as well as two of the company’s product sites, have been infiltrated by “a group of hackers.”

While no credit card information or code data isn’t kept on these sites, it is possible, says Square Enix, that 350 submitted resumes and 25 000 email addresses may have been accessed during the breach.

From the statement:

“Eidosmontreal.com does not hold any credit card information or code data, however there are resumes which are submitted to the website by people interested in jobs at the studio. Regrettably up to 350 of these resumes may have been accessed, and we are in the process of writing to each of the individuals who may have been affected to offer our sincere apologies for this situation.

“In addition, we have also discovered that up to 25,000 email addresses were obtained as a result of this breach. These email addresses are not linked to any additional personal information. They were site registration email addresses provided to us for users to receive product information updates.

“No dissemination or misappropriation of any other personal information has been identified at this point.

“We take the security of our websites extremely seriously and employ strict measures, which we test regularly, to guard against this sort of incident.”

What was done as a result of this breach?

“We immediately took the [affected] sites offline to assess how this had happened and what had been accessed, then took further measures to increase the security of these and all of our websites, before allowing the sites to go live again.”

Crisis over? Hopefully. This ‘hacking’ disease is spreading…

Source: Eidos Forums