Ubisoft, a French video game firm, has revealed that a cybersecurity incident caused various games, systems, and services to be temporarily unavailable. The incident was discovered when Nvidia, a graphics chip manufacturer, and Samsung, a South Korean company, experienced a data breach earlier this month.
Ubisoft stated its IT teams were investigating the issue with the help of prominent external experts.
Ubisoft said in a statement late on Friday, “As a precautionary measure we initiated a company-wide password reset. Also, we can confirm that all our games and services are functioning normally and that at this time there is no evidence any player personal information was accessed or exposed as a by-product of this incident,”
The hacker group behind Nvidia and Samsung claimed responsibility for the data breach at Ubisoft.
As per the Verge report, the group acknowledged responsibility for the Ubisoft incident in a Telegram channel apparently operated by LAPSUS$.
On March 1, Nvidia confirmed that employee credentials and proprietary information had been exposed by the hackers.
Ubisoft said “We have no evidence of ransomware being deployed on the Nvidia environment or that this is related to the Russia-Ukraine conflict,”
On March 7, Samsung said that hackers had stolen internal business data as well as source code for Galaxy devices.
Samsung said, without elaborating further, “There has been no personal data breach, although leaked information includes some source codes necessary to run the Galaxy phones,”
The LAPSUS$ hacking group claimed responsibility for the data breaches and security incident.