Crytek Websites Taken Offline After 'Suspicious Activity'

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Richard Walker

Crysis 3 developer Crytek has temporarily taken some of its websites down as a security measure following supposed "suspicious activity." Apparently, the security breach was discovered earlier yesterday, prompting the German studio to take its sites offline.

Crytek.com, Mycryengine.com, Crydev.net and MyCrysis.com have all seemingly been affected and have been temporarily taken offline. Strangely, Crysis.com has not been taken down and is still running as normal. The aforementioned sites however carry the following message:

"We recently became aware of suspicious activity relating to some of Crytek's websites and acted quickly to take those websites offline for security reasons. We thank you for your patience, and expect to have these sites fully operational soon."

Blue's News reports that users on the affected websites have received emails suggesting that they change their passwords to be on the safe side once the sites return to functioning as normal. No details have been disclosed on what the suspicious activity in question is, but a hack doesn't sound all that far fetched given that Konami, Ubisoft and others have all been past victims of such attacks.

[Via Polygon]

Comments
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  • fuck sake more breach's
  • Another one??
  • Yea cyber crime and war is just going to get worse :(
  • I don't know why, but I found "security crisis" to be hilarious.
  • Why did Crytek not use Maximum Armor when being attacked instead of Cloak?
  • What a great name for their next game...Security Crysis.
  • HA...HA...I get it
  • " Crykey "
  • @8 I love Australians.
  • Crytek acted faster than Konami and Ubisoft when it came to this sort of BS.
  • Man, them hackers should piss off already. Can't they hack bank websites or such? Surely that would prove to be more lucrative option... Or another theory, it's government gathering data on us gamers. Slowly but surely, we are all being profiled to make sure we don't turn into killers hah!
  • That is hackers sit in their basement in home and bored and search any websites to make trouble for publisher websites. Lol Hackers is bad people in this earth. :P
  • Now please it is time all of us here, gamers and good people to ready get into war with hackers then we won the war and after this no more hackers. We all heroes and save the computer world!!!! :)
  • @11 They don't hack bank sites because so many people use the same login and password information for everything. Why hack something with great security when you can hack an easy site and get peoples login information and then use that login info on the bank sites.
  • you know who can boss cyber crime? sam fisher and 4th echelon. they get shizzle done.
  • Hacking is insane at the moment. Pretty much every site, company, government is being hacked all the time. Hell, we now even have hacker serial killers who are turning off people's pacemakers and shutting down systems in the newer smart cars.
  • @14: You hit the nail on the head. Go after the weak sites and then try the log-ins in at more valuable targets to see if they can get in. If anyone is worried about all these hacks, the best thing you can do is use unique passwords for everything. And if you don't want to bother with that, at least use unique passwords for anything important. Unique password for your e-mail account, unique password for your banking, unique passwords for any site where you ... If anyone can seriously screw you over big time with an account if they get into it, unique password that shit. Then if you want to just use the same easy password for less important stuff like forums or whatever, go for it.
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