MCV reports that two more game companies have become embroiled in the hacking epidemic. On Friday, Gears of War developer, Epic, admitted that it was forced to deactivate its web sites and forums for a period of time following a hack.

“Our Epic Games web sites and forums were recently hacked. After some downtime, they’re back up and running now,” Epic founder Tim Sweeney stated. “The hackers may have obtained the email addresses and encrypted passwords of forum users. Plain text passwords weren’t revealed, but it’s possible that those passwords could be obtained by a brute-force attack on the encrypted passwords. Therefore, we have reset all passwords. The Unreal Developer Network hasn’t been compromised. Thankfully, none of our web sites ask for, or store, credit card information or other financial data.”

Then, over the weekend Nintendo discovered a possible phishing threat. As a consequence it then shut down the European Nintendo website and its Club Nintendo portal. This was the second intrusion for Nintendo in less than a week.