Hackers have breached an Electronic Arts Web site and may have taken user information such as birth dates, phone numbers and mailing addresses, the company said yesterday.
Electronic Arts is the latest victim in a spate of global cyber attacks waged against video-game companies.
Last week, Sega Sammy Holdings reported that user information had been stolen from 1.3 million customers, while Sony is still grappling with the massive breach that compromised the data of more than 100 million of its video-game users in April.
Electronic Arts was not immediately available for comment yesterday. No hacker group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
The video-game publisher posted a set of questions and answers on its Web site addressing the attack, which hit a server for EA's Bioware studio in Edmonton, Canada. The hacked Web site was associated with the fantasy game "Neverwinter Nights."
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