According to Ubisoft, a “cyber security problem” occurred last week, causing several games, systems, and services to be temporarily unavailable. Ubisoft hasn’t revealed who might be to blame, but the group that allegedly hacked Nvidia took responsibility on Friday evening.
According to Ubisoft, “at this time, there is no evidence that any user personal information was obtained or exposed as a result of this event,” and that the games and services are now “working normally.” The corporation also “launched a company-wide password reset” as a precaution. When pressed for additional information, Ubisoft spokesperson Jessica Roache replied the firm had none.
The incident is the latest in a string of high-profile hacks. On March 1st, Nvidia revealed that it had been hacked and that the hackers were releasing employee passwords and confidential information. On March 7th, Samsung announced that hackers had stolen internal business data as well as source code for Galaxy smartphones. Those two hacks have been attributed to the LAPSUS$ hacker organization.
But that could not be the end of it. On Friday, LAPSUS$ purportedly tweeted a link to this article and the grinning face emoji in a Telegram channel, implying that the group was also responsible for the Ubisoft incident. The group “verified” that it did not target Ubisoft’s customer information in response to a user in the channel. A request for comment from Ubisoft was not immediately returned.
