I have to believe that someone had this planned as some form of hilarious joke, but one can't help but shake their head at the timing of this.
Ubisoft, who today ran into some issues with Watch Dogs being rendered practically unplayable on PC thanks to some errors with the uPlay system, also had to deal with a hacking of their servers. The official response from Ubisoft came on their forums this morning:
"Hello All,
We recently found that one of our Web sites was exploited to gain unauthorised access to some of our online systems. We instantly took steps to close off this access, to begin a thorough investigation with relevant authorities, internal and external security experts, and to start restoring the integrity of any compromised systems.
During this process, we learned that data were illegally accessed from our account database, including user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords. No personal payment information is stored with Ubisoft, meaning your debit/credit card information was safe from this intrusion.
As a result, we are recommending you to change your password -
CLICK HERE TO CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD.
Out of an abundance of caution, we also recommend that you change your password on any other Web site or service where you use the same or a similar password."
Ubisoft has urged any an all users who have information stored on their servers, whether it be for forum access or to take a look at further content, to change their passwords immediately.
And, when you do that, refrain from making hacker jokes about Watch Dogs...
