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The War Z Taken Offline Following Hack
An anonymous reader writes with this tidbit from Net Security: "Players of The War Z, a first-person zombie survival game, have been notified of a breach of the developer's forum and game databases and the theft of user data contained in them. 'The data accessed included email addresses used to log-in to the forum, forum passwords which we encrypt, email addresses used to log-in to the game, encrypted game passwords as well as in-game character names and the IP addresses from which players log-in to the forum and to the game,' the developer explained ...There is no mention of what encryption algorithm they use to encrypt the passwords, nor whether they are 'salted,' so their advice to users about immediately changing the passwords they used for the forum and the account is more than fitting."
Considering The Walking Dead is pulling in on average 10.5 million viewers each Sunday (including myself), I would say we are far from the end. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Walking_Dead_episodes
This was absolutely not by the same people as DayZ.
+1 This was a separate company capitalizing on DayZ success with their own game based off War Inc. engine. Hammer Point Interactive were developers for War Inc.
This is no surprise. The game was a pit for spawn camping trolls, aim bots, and everything bots anyway. When confronted with this via their forums they just ban your account and you loose your cash with a snobbish troll post calling you a troll basically. Just get the Arma mod DayZ or wait for the stand alone.