Nach den erfolgreichen Hacks der Dota 2-Foren sowie der Seite DLH.net, ist nun eine weitere Fan-Seite von einem Hack betroffen. Diesmal hat es die GTA-Fanseite GTAGaming.com getroffen, wobei nach eigenen Angaben E-Mail-Adressen, verschlüsselte Passwörter, Geburtsdaten und IP-Adressen von insgesamt 200.000 Nutzern gestohlen worden sind. Aufgefallen sei die Sicherheitslücke, als eben diese Daten im Internet zum Verkauf angeboten worden.
In einem Statement hat der Betreiber der Fan-Seite die Nutzer über den Hack informiert und mitgeteilt, dass entsprechende Maßnahmen ergriffen worden sind, um die Nutzer in Zukunft vor solchen Gefahren zu schützen. Jedoch gehe man davon aus, dass lediglich die Daten von 30.000 Accounts ernsthaft betroffen seien, da der Großteil der Daten von Spam-Bots oder inaktiven Usern stammen soll, wie man gegenüber Motherboard mitteilte.
Statement GTAGaming:
It is unfortunate that the first news item in quite some time is to inform viewers of a recent breach of GTAGaming’s secure data.
We believe our forum database has recently been compromised, which has given hackers access to email addresses, hashed passwords, and any other details you may have saved in your profiles. Upon logging into the site you will find you are forced to change your password, and shortly we will be force resetting all passwords not updated. We also recommend changing your password on any site(s) that may have used the same one.
We have now closed the forums permanently, and any accounts not updated within the next couple weeks will be deleted from the database. We will be moving the account database into a more secure authentication system, removing all trace of the vBulletin forum software, and until then will be keeping a close eye to prevent any further compromises.
Beyond that, we don’t know what the future of this site will be. This marks our 13th year online, and the 8th year online for GTA4-Mods.com, but recently – as any visitor or modder would have noticed – both sites have fallen further and further into neglect with no staff to maintain them. It was our intent to at least keep the sites online as long as possible for access to our massive file library of mods and tools, but as being hacked is not in anyone’s best interests, if we cannot successfully maintain a secure account database for our users, we may need to consider closing both sites.
For now, we apologize for this inconvenience, and hope that no one is any further affected by this database breach.
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