Atari’s Servers May Have Been Compromised

<p>Atari is warning their customers that an unauthorized access to Cryptic’s server that happened last year may have spread to their system as well&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;At that time&comma; Atari owned Cryptic and the intrusion may have affected users on Atari’s databases as well&comma;” they said in an email sent out today&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Proactive measures to correct the issue” are being taken&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Atari has reset the passwords for all Atari&period;com and TDU2&period;com users believed to have been affected&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We take the security of our user accounts very seriously and are investigating this issue further with Cryptic Studios&comma;” Atari ads&comma; noting that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;this was not an intrusion on our existing database&comma; but one that occurred prior to our divestment of Cryptic Studios in July of 2011&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Cryptic no longer manages Atari’s databases&period;  Our deepest apologies for the inconvenience&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lpar;Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;thatvideogameblog&period;com&sol;2012&sol;05&sol;08&sol;ataris-servers-possibly-compromised&sol;">That VideoGame Blog<&sol;a>&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;