Riot Games have notified all EU West and EU Nordic & East League of Legends players warning them that their details may have been compromised by hackers.
Some players' email addresses, encrypted s, and dates of birth have been leaked. As a precaution Riot recommend you change your immediately by logging in here and clicking "my " page in the top right.
A post from the President and CMO of Riot provides more detailed infomation. According to the post, "Even though we store s in encrypted form only, our security investigation determined that more than half of the s were simple enough to be at risk of easy cracking."
Riot have "fixed the security issue" and "hired experts" to make future breaches "less likely."
The post also offers a sincere apology for the breach: "We'll continue to invest in security measures, including hashing and data encryption, state-of-the-art firewalls, SSL, security ninjas, and other security measures to make your info safer. We've been humbled by this experience and know that nothing guarantees the security of Internet-connected systems such as League of Legends. We can simply promise to try our very best to protect your data."
Riot are the latest in a long list of high profile devs to fall victim to hackers. Bioware have all been targeted.
