Square Enix have released an official response to earlier reports that thousands of users' details had been stolen in an attack on their Eidos and Deus Ex: Human Revolution websites. They confirm that 25,000 email addresses have been stolen, but add that these were not linked to any personal information. They also say that the sites in question contained no credit card information, though 350 resumes have been stolen. You can read their full statement below.
The numbers given by Square Enix are much lower than the 80,000 figure suggested earlier, and there's no mention of the source code that the hackers claim to have stolen. Eurogamer have been contacted by a hacker claiming that a group called Gnosis, not Anonymous, are the hacking organisation behind the attack.
The hacker also told them that the source code mentioned by the perpetrators of the attack referred to the source code of the website, saying that Deus Ex: Human Revolution "is not at risk."
The hacker claims that they "knew about the hack yesterday, and one of us went as far as to contact Eidos to try and warn them about a potential data leak. They were, however, unreceptive and insisted in the event something like this happened it would be an internal matter."
The hacker, who goes be the handle Venuism, said that Anonymous "do not want to hurt people around the internet". "That's not our style," he said.
"We are not 'whitehats', but we will not scam you, steal credit cards and do dirty stuff with them."
