Ubisoft's platform, Uplay, has been hacked. The security breach was revealed last night, and users have been contacted and told to change their passwords (and any similar passwords for other services).
Stolen information includes user names, contact emails and personal passwords, although it seems that (luckily) no payment details were accessed.
We recently found that one of our Web sites was exploited to gain unauthorised access to some of our online systems. We instantly took steps to close off this access, investigate the incident and begin restoring the integrity of any compromised systems.
During this process, we learned that data had been illegally accessed from our account database, including user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords. Please note that no personal payment information is stored with Ubisoft, meaning your debit/credit card information was safe from this intrusion.
As a result, we are recommending that you change the password for your account.
Out of an abundance of caution, we also recommend that you change your password on any other Web site or service where you use the same or a similar password.
This isn't the first time that there's been security issues surrounding the service, and users will no doubt be getting tired of their personal information being at risk. Hopefully Ubisoft can close the loophole and beef up security so it doesn't happen again. Head this way to change your password if you haven't already.