Codemasters' customer data compromised

no they are missing one most important thing before anybody can identy, your email, your date of birth your gamer tag doesnt cut it.

So they stole everything u need to steal ur identy:(

This is ridiculous. First Sony, then Sega, now Codemasters? This hacking s**t is p**sing a lot of people off

This hacking sh**** really needs to stop

Hackers Go for the Gusto!! This anti-piracy is a joke. They are just preventing pre-owned games from being sold. If I buy a game and sell it for less why can't people just use it. hackers please beat there walls down.. you worried about sales more than security of the people purchasing it go screw. I know I don't like it all but I understand when the industry pulls this kind of crap. Just be innovative I would never buy a pirated awesome game. Maybe there are other losers out there that would but I stand for my morals and they can go screw. but I got no problem with pirating a crappy shovelware game, LOL!!

They should get Norton, it works well !!!

@OmegaGear I see, thanks for the clarification. It seems anonymous started a trend among hackers...

Maybe 2012 was predicted wrong. Maybe by 2012 all video games and consoles will die out by mistakes/hacking and loss's, and we will all be forced to go outside and play, but the lack of grip on reality will inevitably get us owned by cars or lack of life bars!

We've all seen south park right? They'er angry and hacking because of there small penises. That's the case with everything, think about it.

@Evilnator Only three hackers from the group Anonymous were caught. This recent string o hacking is being done by a different group called lulzsec. This specific hack has no one taking credit yet.

I Have a good idea. Why don't ALL the hackers get together and hack terrorist web sites. Then they would all become heros instead of a large festering pimple on the worlds anis.Or maybe they just like the view from down there.

I am really sick of these hackers, I just want to be able to play games without all this crap every other week? Do yourselves and the rest of the world a huge favour...? GET LOST??? Oh and while yer at it, go and get some proper jobs, yi bunch o bums!?

It was probably revenge for lack of support of Dragon Rising...

Do they get hacked cause they wouldn't hire the hackers?

zni3h, yes it is because they are idiots. They should hire smarter people to protect us, their "Valued Customers". You don't have to be smart to hack, you can learn that on the internet. Within 1 hour or so you too could be a hacker. If you can hack a game, you can hack a web site with a little persaverence. The Secret Service will probably investigate this, as they do with all credit card fraud, not the FBI, believe it or not.

i hope there is no harm

god i hate these hackers, but anyone else find it ironic that the company's name is codemasters?

Also, Epic and Bethesda... << LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Hackers, why do you hate games so much?

I swear these hackers are acting like children.

This is getting ridiculous.

THIS IS CRAZY I am scared that my xbox is next they better be tacking preemptive measures toprotect my info

@wilhelmbobby it's not b'cuz they are idiots,it's just that the hackers are smarter

good thing that i haven't buy DIRT 3

Just putting such a aggresive (multiplayer and cars locked down) VIP code for Dirt 3 was an imbecile decision, ok, but messing with my personal information again... a big **** *** to those companies. They now give hackers are reason to exist, and a reason for me to buy a new pc, and easily download my games somewhere.

They did a crappy job on Operation Flashpoint, If they can't design a game without MAJOR flaws right out of the gate, what makes you think they can run a secure web site, the IDIOTS.

@jqh97116 right so let me get this straight ... you just think they've gone to all the trouble and enormous risk of hacking major organisations for a laugh rather than the benefit of stealing peoples details to lead to bank accounts with money in them? ... I've read some naieve comments about these hackers before but thats the most optomistic of the lot. You dont go to that kind of risk just to freak out the population.

And here you have the reason why i don't use credit cards on the interwebs >.

You know,I start to wonder,do things like this happen all the time and we just never hear it because like with the Nintendo one it was no big deal?Maybe we just hear about them so much now because thanks to the one that was actually a problem-the PSN debacle-it's a hot news item that gets people reading articles.Or are these a bunch of lame hackers just trying to get a feeling of accomplishment by committing copycat crimes? People are stupid.

I thought I read an article a few hours ago, that they caught the hackers in Spain? So these are different hackers?

Why the hell can't we get on top of this? Finding these losers needs to be a priority before it really starts to affect us.

may be hacker is right

This whole data compromise stuff is getting disturbing and out of hand.

What is going on these days? Has stolen data always been an issue and we only see it in the headlines now because of the Sony incident, or is this something new?

Will the hackers say they are doing this because Codemasters deserved it for not releasing a MicroMachines game recently or "just because". It's concerning that this is becoming something of a fad akin to that stupid planking crap.

Activating the game was a step forward to steal the right of playing what you pay for. If hackers do because of this, Well done. The man must be free, to do what he wants with what he bought, and should not become slaves of servers.

What do you hacker supporters have to say now? Why do you support these losers? They're not "standing up" for the people, they don't care about anyone but themselves. They steal from anyone, they could care less if you support them or not. They are thieves. I can't find one simple reason what they're doing is "standing up" for us. I don't support criminals, sorry.

Step up the law and bring death penalty to hackers. That oughta inspire some fear in them.

do hackers really have nothing else to do but mess with game companies? this is getting out of hand

So this is why my 360 Dirt 3 is locking up! Then why is my PS3 version fine.

This is getting out of hand. I hope Microsoft is paying attention to all this and really beefing up their security, as well as any other company. I think the FBI needs to step in and take these dirtbags down no matter if it's the same hackers or different hackers all together.

Fortunately, I use tiered passwords and give fake details as a rule. The only case one should EVER give their real info is to a financial institution such as your bank where required by law. My recommendation is to create a fake identity and use that across any services you use, if that gets compromised then no biggie; and to use different passwords for each site, or AT LEAST for the important ones :\

Not a big fan of Codemaster. (especially of what they did to Operation Flashpoint)

@UntraceableHaze What I don't understand, is why don't the hackers go after Bioware? I'm getting really sick of these companies attempts to minimize used game sales... This is just 1 example of why DRM and codes don't work very well. Sucks for the people that bought Dirt 3 :'(

Yo, how's that DRM working out for you guys? Please, be next Bioware! Somebody sue 'em!

I was registered there, don't even know why... I stupidly used the same password as my email account, and sure enough it was hacked and weird mails were sent in my name. Changed my password immediately and I would recommend everyone take this seriously and change your passwords right now!

I've a serious toothache! could somebody come hack that.

does this mean if ive played dirt 3 on xbox 360 and uploaded a video from it to youtube i could be hacked ?

@ Saamic just keep an eye on your credit card statment and if you start getting bills for RPG rockets and fertiliser then start worrying ;)

One of my favorite devs. Why don't they go hack activision, maybe they will smarten up and require far better security for the games and game networks, hmmmm? Or if acclaim was still around that wouldn't have been a problem

What if Al-Qaeda is being all this recent hacking O_O