MMO For Kids Shuts Down Temporarily After Hacker Fills It With Nasty Swears

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Players took screenshots of these messages and shared them on Reddit while also theorizing that “Server Dude” (their nickname for the hacker) was a disgruntled employee. This at first seemed plausible, but the theory seems to have been squashed by Wizard101 devs KingsIsle Entertainment.

Posted earlier today, a new statement from the studio apologizes for the “inappropriate” messages. It also claims that the in-game “broadcast system” was “illegally accessed” and used to post messages “as if they were written by a KingsIsle employee.” The rest of the statement doesn’t say who may have been responsible for the hacked messages, but the studio confirms that no other systems were hacked and that it has added more security to its broadcast system in an effort to prevent this kind of thing from happening again.

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Kotaku has contacted KingsIsle for more information about the situation and who was behind the hack.

It truly seems like, in 2022, no one in the video game industry is safe from hackers. We recently saw GTA VI leak thanks to a hacker. And now Wizard101 has been hit by (likely) a different hacker. I imagine a bunch of different video game studios and publishers are having meetings right now about security and how to better protect themselves from future hackers.

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