According to a story on CNN, White Wolf Publishing, creator of a number of MMO games including Vampire: The Requiem and Mage: The Awakening, was recently hacked. The hackers threatened to release customer data on the Web unless the company pays an undisclosed sum of money. Rather than pay up, White Wolf have decided to go public and released a statement on their website.

Like many other well-known companies of the last few years, White Wolf was the target of an attack by international hackers on Sunday December 11th. These hackers are attempting to extort money from us with the threat of posting user data to the internet. We have no intention of paying this money, and are in contact with the FBI in an attempt to bring these criminals to justice.

We are choosing to make this public so that our users and fans can take any precautions needed to protect themselves. We are recommending that if you have used your White Wolf user password as the password for any other services you use on the internet, that you change them immediately.

In response the hackers emailed individual subscribers, offering to sell them the information for US$10. Head over to White Wolf’s website for more information.

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