Warframe hacked — 775K player email addresses now in cyberattackers’ hands

One of the most popular console and PC free-to-play games suffered a cyberattack almost two years ago, and the developer only just found out about it.

In November 2014, developer Digital Extreme’s sci-fi shooter Warframe (available for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC) was the target of an exploit that led to hackers getting their hands on more than 775,000 email addresses. The studio claims they only just learned of the event and that they came forward with all the information once they had a grasp of what happened. This was not a direct breach of the game’s servers. Instead, the cyberattackers broke into the Drupal content-management system that the old Warframe site was built on. Since the hackers did not get into the servers, the only sensitive data they got their hands on were email addresses. Digital Extremes claims that info like passwords, home addresses, and credit card numbers were not compromised.