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16th May 2011
12:05pm BST
Final Fantasy and Tomb Raider publishers Square Enix have confirmed that over 25,000 email addresses and CVs had been stolen in a massive security breach last week.
Just hours after Sony began its steps to fully restore its PSN service following a cataclysmic hacker attack, Square Enix confirmed their own security breach, though admitted it was smaller than previously thought.
"Square Enix can confirm a group of hackers gained access to parts of our Eidosmontreal.com website as well as two of our product sites [including the forthcoming release Deux Ex: Human Revolution, pictured above]," the company confirmed in a statement.
"We immediately took the sites offline to assess how this had happened and what had been accessed, then took further measures to increase the security of these and all of our websites, before allowing the sites to go live again.
Early reports had suggested that over 80,000 user's personal data had been stolen, while the culprits are believed to be a splinter group of hacker collective Anonymous.
"Regrettably up to 350 of these resumes may have been accessed, and we are in the process of writing to each of the individuals who may have been affected to offer our sincere apologies for this situation. In addition, we have also discovered that up to 25,000 email addresses were obtained as a result of this breach," continued the statement.
"These email addresses are not linked to any additional personal information. They were site registration email addresses provided to us for users to receive product information updates.
Thankfully, Square Enix were at pains to stress that the company does not store customers' credit card data on its web servers. Sony yesterday announced the formal relaunching of its Playstation Network service following three weeks of downtime - close to 100 million consumers' personl details were believed to have been stolen in the PSN attack.
