Bohemia Interactive Confirms DayZ Forum Hacked

DayZ see’s players fight off and survive in a harsh apocalyptic world where zombies are the second most dangerous thing, only after the other players that want all your stuff. Seems someone took that one step further and have taken people’s login details for the DayZ forums.

With reports that it was hacked as early as last week, Bohemia Interactive (the creators of the standalone game, based on the popular mod) have sent an email round to their forum members stating the extent of the hack and the details that were obtained during the hack.

Greetings,

A security incident occurred on forums.dayzgame.com recently. According to our investigation all usernames, emails and passwords from forums.dayzgame.com were accessed and downloaded by hackers.

While the passwords were not stored in plain text, but in a more secure form, it is highly recommended that if you have used the same password elsewhere you change it immediately on all applicable websites and services.

We would like to apologize for the inconvenience caused, and share with you one of the major changes planned in order to mitigate similar risks in the future. We will be replacing the IPBoards login system with Bohemia Account within the next two weeks. As Bohemia Account is a separate custom-built service currently used by Bohemia Interactive Forums and Store, it offers much better security and its use should prevent similar incidents going forward.

We ask for your patience over the next few days and weeks as we implement this and other security overhauls, as there are likely to be service interruptions and forum unavailability from time to time. In particular, the forums will be down until migration to the Bohemia Account is complete. We will keep you up to date on vital info and scheduled down-time on the site itself and via our Twitter.

Yours sincerely,

Bohemia Interactive

While everything from usernames and emails was taken,  the passwords were luckily encrypted in some way. We highly recommend that you change your password for the DayZ forum and any other sites or services that you use that password for (recommended that everything has a unique password in future, helps prevent breaches like this affecting other accounts).

While hacks are becoming more and more common, sites like these need to respond quicker and alert their users as soon as they detect the hack, a whole week is a lot of time to have access to people’s emails and social media accounts (all of which could be done using your email and potentially your password).