League of Legends Databases Hacked, But Payment Info Safe
Hackers have attacked the servers of Riot Games, makers of the popular free-to-play League of Legends title game forces players (and their NPC armies) to square off in corridor-based killing fields. Here's the good news: "No payment or billing information of any kind was included in the breach," according to Riot Games president Marc Merrill and CEO Brandon Beck.
Riot Games has managed to fix whatever undisclosed exploit the hackers used to gain access to the company's cache of player information. Only the company's databases for players on its EU West or EU Nordic & East servers appear to have been affected, and all of these gamers will soon receive an email alerting them to that fact.
"The most critical data accessed included email address, encrypted account password, summoner name, date of birth, and – for a small number of players – first and last name and encrypted security question and answer," Merrill and Beck wrote. Riot Games is advising players that they should change their account passwords and, if they were lazy enough to use their League of Legends login credentials on other sites, to change passwords there as well.
