SEATTLE — Seattle video game maker, Big Fish said someone hacked into its system and might have stolen credit card information from some of its customers.
Big Fish said it self-discovered the security breach and immediately removed the malware after it was found.
The company won't say how many users might have been affected, saying only that the incident affected " a small percentage of our total customers."
A statement from a Big Fish spokesperson reads, in part:
"Big Fish Games Inc. self-discovered evidence that we were the victim of a criminal cyber-security intrusion of our website. Upon learning of the potential security incident, we immediately took steps to remove the malware responsible for the issue. We hired a leading data security forensics firm to assist in our investigation of the incident to fully understand the event and to help us better assure data security going forward."
"Affected customers are limited to those who provided new payment information using a browser to make purchases on our website from December 24 until January 8. There is no indication that this issue had any impact on customers (who) purchased games for iOS and Android devices through Facebook or who had entered their payment details prior to or after this time frame."
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