Gamers furious as Brit studio Cloud Imperium quietly admits to data breach

Gamers are ready to unleash their mightiest virtual weapons and point them at British games studio Cloud Imperium, after it sat on news of a data breach and then announced it without fanfare.

Readers have contacted The Register to point out that the company’s (CIG’s) sites have, in recent hours, included a meek popup “Service Alert” that advises “We are aware of an IT incident that impacts some of our users” and offers a link to this page that reveals the incident took place on January 21st when the company says it was “targeted by a systematic and sophisticated attack, resulting in unauthorised access to some backup systems, including limited access to users’ personal data.”

That went down like a cold bucket of sick to users

One of the readers who contacted The Register about the incident described the company’s tactics as “Notice duly published in a ...