Ubisoft Suffers Cyberattack After Nvidia & Samsung, How to Protect Data from Successive Incidents?

French video game giant Ubisoft said that a cyberattack briefly disrupted some systems and services, but didn't speak further about the details. The issue was revealed after graphics chip manufacturer Nvidia and South Korean electronic giant Samsung admitted to data breach this month.

Ubisoft said its It teams were working with external experts to investigate this issue and announced that all the affected games and serviced were quickly restored, no players personal information being compromised in the incident. This is the second cyber incident took place in Ubisoft, the company announced that 'Just Dance' users' data was compromised in December 2021.

“As a precautionary measure we initiated a company-wide password reset,” the statement said later on Friday.

While Ubisoft did not provide any information on the attackers, it appears that the same hacker group that previously claimed responsibility for cyber events at NVIDIA, Samsung, and Vodafone was involved.

A Telegram channel allegedly operated by the "Lapsus$" extortion organization provided a link to a news article about the Ubisoft hack, followed by the grinning face emoji, which may imply the group is responsible for the breach.

Nvidia suffered a cyberattack on March 1st that leaked employed credentials and proprietary information.

Samsung disclosed on March 7 that hacker stole Samsung source code data related to the operation of its Galaxy devices, but no personal information of its customers or employees was exposed.

Cyber security incidents are hard to root out, and companies from all walks of life fall to victim consistently. So, what can be done to avoid such attacks again?

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