Report: UK retailer GAME's customer database breached

If Amazon ever gets hacked I may as well just leave the internet.

Following GAME's (appalling) new website launch last year, they've just been a catalogue of errors. I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out they have been hacked, and do store passwords unencrypted.

I just reset my GAME password, the first time I've even visited the website in about 5 years.

Oh, of course it was.

Times like these, gentleman. Times like these...

The thing that annoys me is that everytime something like this happens, the company always rolls out with ' The security and confidentiality of our customers' data is always of the highest importance to us'. Which seems to be corporate code for 'We are very annoyed this has happened, because it's shown up our lax security and now we have to pay for P.R to help make things look better'.
Also annoying: The same way that in the foodservice industry 'fresh' can now be interchanged with 'crap' to translate the marketing in real terms.

The thing that annoys me is that everytime something like this happens, the company always rolls out with ' The security and confidentiality of our customers' data is always of the highest importance to us'. Which seems to be corporate code for 'We are very annoyed this has happened, because it's shown up our lax security and now we have to pay for P.R to help make things look better'.
Also annoying: The same way that in the foodservice industry 'fresh' can now be interchanged with 'crap' to translate the marketing in real terms.

Well I used it once to order Xenoblade, I didn't make an account or anything, so theoretically my information wouldn't have been saved anywhere, right?

But yeah, their recent redesign was a huge mess, although it wound up working in my favor once I got it all dealt with. 2 copies for the price of almost none, I think I was out 10 dollars for two 60 euro bundles.

The pastebin email addresses have been traced to a Polish site from over a year ago, and are nothing to do with Game.

Why is this story being published after at least the Game reference has been soundly debunked as a hoax?

Joystiq: "GAME's customer database breached"
GAME: We weren't hacked, bro!

Shitty journalism or shitty PR department. I'm leaning towards Joystiq whoring itself out for clicks.

Awesome, more spam for me!

I hope they don't steal my £2.74 of my rewards card account.