While most of the gaming world seems to have moved on from DayZ, that does not mean that the game has dropped off of hackers’ radars, and developer Bohemia Interactive AS has alerted players that hundreds of emails, usernames, and passwords have been compromised.

“A security incident occurred on forums.dayzgame.com recently,” Bohemia said in an email to users (via Reddit). “According to our investigation all usernames, emails and passwords from forums.dayzgame.com were accessed and downloaded by hackers.”

“While the passwords were not stored in plain text, but in a more secure form, it is highly recommended that if you have used the same password elsewhere you change it immediately on all applicable websites and services.”

It appears that the hack itself happened over a week ago, but Bohemia is just now contacting users to inform them of the compromised system.

“We would like to apologize for the inconvenience caused, and share with you one of the major changes planned in order to mitigate similar risks in the future,” Bohemia continued. “We will be replacing the IPBoards login system with Bohemia Account within the next two weeks. As Bohemia Account is a separate custom-built service currently used by Bohemia Interactive Forums and Store, it offers much better security and its use should prevent similar incidents going forward.”

DayZ was originally released in 2009 as a mod for military sim game Arma II, and fans of the mod were excited when a full standalone game was announced a few years later. These days interest in the game is not quite what it once was, as DayZ is has been stuck in the alpha testing phase despite having been released on Steam Early Access over two years ago.

The developers have said that a full release of the game will finally arrive this year, but so far, there has still been no official release date given.

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