The support site for 2K Games has been hacked, and the publisher warns users to beware of phishing emails as it closes the support portal for maintenance.
“Earlier today, we became aware that an unauthorized third party illegally accessed the credentials of one of our vendors on the help desk platform that 2K uses to support our customers,” 2K says in a tweet. “The unauthorized party sent a communication to certain players that contained a malicious link. Please do not open any email or click on any link received from the 2K Games support account.”
If you to have When you click on such a link, 2K recommends a number of security precautions, including resetting any passwords you have stored in your browser, enabling two-factor authentication on any accounts you can, and running an antivirus program.
Hello friends, please read an important message from our customer service team. Thanks. pic.twitter.com/yKI18eL7mYSeptember 20, 2022
For now, the 2K support site will go offline and the publisher will issue an additional notice once it’s back.
2K Support handles customer service for most titles under the 2K Games label, including Borderlands, Civilization, WWE 2K, NBA 2K, and more. While 2K is a sister company to Rockstar under Take-Two Interactive, Rockstar handles all of its own support services in-house, so it has no connection to games like Grand Theft Auto 5 or Red Dead Redemption 2.
However, Rockstar has had its own issues with hacks around GTA 6. Over the weekend, a bunch of images of an earlier version of the upcoming Grand Theft Auto leaked online. Rockstar has confirmed that the leak was real and that it was the result of a “network intrusion”. The hacker was allegedly involved in a series of attacks on big tech companies in 2022, including Uber, Microsoft, Samsung, and Nvidia, and now the FBI is getting involved.
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