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6 years ago Jun 29,2018, 20:57:00 PM

An Important Announcement

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Hi everyone,  

We’re reaching out with some important information. This isn’t a fun announcement, but we really would appreciate if you took the time to read it.  


Background/What Happened?

In June 2016 Amplitude Studios was made aware that our platform www.Games2Gether.com was accessed without authorization.  This may have resulted in the unauthorized access to some of your data, including any combination of your username, registered email address, encrypted password and date of birth.


Steps We’ve Taken

We take your privacy and the integrity of our universes extremely seriously.  
When we became aware of the unauthorized access, we shut down the G2G platform and took the immediate action of initiating a comprehensive security review.

As a result of that security review, we launched the new Games2Gether platform after ensuring that enhanced security measures were in place.  We also enforced password resets for all returning users along with newer password encryption technology. Furthermore, we implemented regular security testing to prevent the likelihood of any such attack happening in the future. 

 

What Do You Need to Do?

While this happened some time ago, we would still recommend as a precaution that you consider changing your password on other platforms, websites or applications where you may have used the same password and email combination.


We would also recommend that you remain vigilant to phishing emails and spam asking for personal information.


If You Need More Information

We’re here and we’re listening. Please feel free to contact us at inquiry@amplitude-studios.com.


Thanks for reading,


The Amplitude Team

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6 years ago
Jul 4, 2018, 10:20:32 PM

Pretty good!  Kudos to your security dude for not forgetting the salt.  (And thanks to you for getting the answer to the question!)


  • How was my password encrypted? 

Specifically, MD5(MD5([password])+[salt]) . What does that mean? It’s a form of encryption, but its security is not guaranteed. Again, change your passwords if you have the same Username/Password combination elsewhere.



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6 years ago
Jul 3, 2018, 9:28:03 AM
Natco wrote:


  • Will you send a newsletter? 

Yes. Expect it within 48 hours. Since this is important, administrative content, it will go out to everybody on G2G including those who haven’t specifically opted-in to Games2Gether communication. 

How do we opt-in to that? I never get Games2Gether emails, and wish I did. But I don't see any sort of setting for that anywhere.

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6 years ago
Jul 3, 2018, 4:27:48 PM

Well, if nobody has hacked my other accounts for 2 years, maybe I'm not so interesting person for those hackers.

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6 years ago
Jul 4, 2018, 7:03:49 AM

I saw people mentioning some thing about this message being from 2 years back but wasn't there an exact copy of this message posted back then?

so this is a repost? or something bugged out on the server.

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6 years ago
Jul 4, 2018, 12:12:25 PM

ENFER you sneaky devil... 

waiting 2 years... I'm guessing they are complying with the new stricter laws which doesn't really give them a lot of credit for not sharing when this actually happened


See now - I support both bitching and ENFER!

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6 years ago
Jul 4, 2018, 1:47:50 PM

Guys are you insane? Its not an important news at all. Where is updates?? Online in your games is going down! Please stop messing around and start doing your job. I dont want to look like a rude man, but i havent seen updates more than 2 mounth!!!
I thought that you will not leave your game development. Was i wrong??

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6 years ago
Jul 4, 2018, 2:06:17 PM
SaintIndus wrote:
I thought that you will not leave your game development.

They are currently beta testing one update and Umbral Choir faction is in development as well. There are just not enough in-between updates imo.

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6 years ago
Jul 4, 2018, 5:58:30 PM
SaintIndus wrote:

Guys are you insane? Its not an important news at all. Where is updates?? Online in your games is going down! Please stop messing around and start doing your job. I dont want to look like a rude man, but i havent seen updates more than 2 mounth!!!
I thought that you will not leave your game development. Was i wrong? 

Though there haven't been any minor updates like @mamarider said they are putting a lot of effort into getting the next expansion ready to release, which I'm gonna assume seems to have occupied most, if not all of the entire team. Furthermore, they had the faction contest for Espionage expansion, which in a way, was an update as they were putting work into getting content out, specifically the concept art that was released during the contest(s). 


This may not be important news to you, but Amplitude felt it was important enough to release, so it must be important to some players. 


They are doing their jobs, but they are not required to update the game every 2 months, and you are not entitled to new content. Be patient and you'll get more content, but instead of being an ass, cheering on the team to work harder as you are excited about any new content would be a better way of expressing your "desire" for new Endless Space 2 content. 

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6 years ago
Jul 3, 2018, 8:14:26 AM

like the even distribution of bitching "victims" and enfer memers here xD

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6 years ago
Jul 5, 2018, 10:22:17 AM
mamarider wrote:

like the even distribution of bitching "victims" and enfer memers here xD

same XD

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6 years ago
Jul 24, 2018, 12:48:40 PM

I assume you are only telling us this now because you are being forced too under the new EU GDPR legislation.

ref: 

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-34-gdpr/


Pretty shady. I appreciate you probably got the lawyers involved early but still greatly shakes confidence in your business image.

Data leaks happen so often to the point they feel inevitable. The ethical solution is notifying those effected as soon as possible so they can manage the potential fallout themselves.


Sad that this doesnt seem to be common sense. After all, we (the users) are uniquely qualified to understand the impact these leaks have on ourselves.

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6 years ago
Jul 24, 2018, 1:16:53 PM

At least you salted the passwords, but MD5? *really*?


I mean, if they have the hashes locally (which is what you're inferring), MD5, even salted, is -ridiculously- easy to brute force.


Eugh.


Please tell me at least you've updated your encryption method since this snafu.

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6 years ago
Jul 24, 2018, 3:48:46 PM

We are contacting you now because we have recently been reached out to by a few users who have received phishing emails to email accounts used only for G2G. 

So u telling us now, because u were caught not telling us? 

2016... wow. *slow clap*

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6 years ago
Jul 24, 2018, 4:28:54 PM

ha ha ha @Strumpfi10

https://i.reddit.com/r/EndlessSpace/comments/8slvo7/amplitude_studios_hack_of_2016/


right on the money

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6 years ago
Jul 25, 2018, 5:36:30 PM
daveemagee wrote:

I assume you are only telling us this now because you are being forced too under the new EU GDPR legislation.

ref: 

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-34-gdpr/


Pretty shady. I appreciate you probably got the lawyers involved early but still greatly shakes confidence in your business image.

Data leaks happen so often to the point they feel inevitable. The ethical solution is notifying those effected as soon as possible so they can manage the potential fallout themselves.


Sad that this doesnt seem to be common sense. After all, we (the users) are uniquely qualified to understand the impact these leaks have on ourselves.

Calm down. There WAS an Mail or announce when they recognized they were hacked. I don't have it any more if it was a Mail (due to it's too long ago). BUT i know there was one, cuz I changed my Password at exactly that time due to that issue.

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6 years ago
Jun 29, 2018, 10:41:54 PM

Wow ^^ Nice picture. 

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