GAME denies security breach
GeneralPosted on Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 at 9:00 AM by Guest
GAME one of the UK’s biggest video game stores has released a public state denying reports of account hackings.
In these reports it is believed that over 200 customer accounts’ details have been obtained. These details include both the customers email address and password.
In respond to this GAME spokesperson Anna-Marie Mason sent out this statement:
“At GAME we guard our customers’ details very carefully. We have thoroughly investigated the hacking claims made today by the website Pastebin, and can confirm that they are entirely false.
The published email addresses are not registered users of GAME.co.uk, and there has been no breach of our database security.
We would like to assure all our customers that their details are well protected, and advise anyone who has any questions to contact our customer services team via the website, our Facebook page or Twitter account.”
Though there hasn’t been anymore details since the statement was released we will keep you up to date with any updates we hear.
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