Yesterday, using a "very new exploit", a hacker was able to get access to the EA Forum homepage and deface it.
Shortly after the attack, EA shut down the forums as they investigated the security breach.
EA were quick to reassure users that they're confident that no personal data, such as passwords and private information, was accessed.
Dan Sheridan, UK community manager, posted this on the forum (which was then picked up by MCV): "As some of you noticed the homepage of the forums was defaced by a hacker yesterday using a very new exploit for the software which runs the forums. This was noticed quickly and we took the action to take the forums offline while we investigated the details."
He then added: "This work is now complete and the vulnerability we believe was used has now been fixed. There is no evidence that any personal data was compromised and as passwords aren't stored in a recoverable manor, we are confident they remain secure."