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A recent slew of security failures have left countless accounts hacked at sites like Linkedin and eHarmoney. Now League of Legends is the latest database to suffer from hackers this week.

Riot has sent out a mail to registered League of Legends players in Europe, asking them to change their passwords due to a hackers accessing some player account information. Full details are below, but know that according to Riot,” absolutely no payment or billing information of any kind was included in the breach.” but email addresses, encrypted account password, summoner name, date of birth, and for a small number of players – first and last name and encrypted security question and answer.

Obviously, this information could be used in phishing scams. Riot Games does encrypt passwords through it warns “our security investigation determined that more than half of the passwords were simple enough to be at risk of easy cracking”. Marc Merrill and Brandon Beck posted an update on the situation, as well as a formal apology which you can read below.

As these things go, Riot appears to be handling this embarrassing situation relatively well. There's no info yet on exactly when the breach took place.

Finally, Riot's Marc Merrill Brandon Beck have apologised to players for the breach, saying "We take your privacy and security seriously, and we're working diligently to improve it for the better."

Source: http://thehackernews.com/2012/06/online-game-league-of-legends.html

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Sid Meier's Civilization V: Gods & Kings is an upcoming and first official expansion pack for the turn-based strategy video game Civilization V. It is currently expected to release on June 19 in North America and June 22 internationally. It will add both religion and espionage mechanics to the game as well as rework the combat and diplomacy features.

Gods and Kings is set to include 27 new units, 13 new buildings, 9 new wonders, and 9 new playable civilizations. A new religion mechanic featuring a "faith" resource will allow players to found their own religion which they can grow to a "world-spanning fully customized religion." Diplomacy has been reworked to include espionage, foreign embassies, and new types of city-states (religious and mercantile). City-states will also feature a new quest system and strategic importance. Additionally, the combat system has been re-worked to include smarter AI, an expanded early modern era, and enhanced naval combat featuring Great Admiral and melee naval units. Gods & Kings will add an additional fifty-two Steam achievements to Civilization V.
Three new scenarios will be included in the expansion: "Fall of Rome", focusing on the decline of the Roman Empire; "Into the Renaissance", focusing on religion in the Middle Ages into the Renaissance era; and "Empires of the Smoky Skies", a Victorian steampunk scenario.