The site's also rushing to implement more rigorous monitoring and two-step security for the future. They don't know what the file does as yet, but it has been sent off for analysis. As for the three affected mods (if others are compromised we don't know about it yet), apparently their creators used very simple passwords, and this appears to be how the hackers found their way in and added the suspicious 'dsound.dll' file to it. In an update, Nexus clarified that you should be safe if you either registered after Jor changed your password subsequent to that - but change it again anyway. The better news is that Premium member's payment details aren't kept anywhere, as they outsource all that to Paypal. Passwords are encrypted - hashed and salted - though it's not impossible that that could be broken in time.

Whoever's responsible for the breach has access to user IDs, usernames, email addresses for registrations prior to July 22, 2013.

He says 'it's too ambiguous to draw any concrete conclusion', but is nonetheless advising that everyone changes their Nexus password ASAP. The authors of the Higher Settlement Budget, Rename Dogmeat, and BetterBuild mods say someone other than them made changes to the versions of their mods hosted on Nexus, while site representative DarkOne brought the news of a 'potential database breach.' It's not at all impossible than you're one of its ten million registered users even if you don't entirely remember being so. Nexus' owners have established that the breach only affects user registrations up until mid-2013, although that still comprises almost six million accounts and very much covers the Skyrim heyday.īear in mind you may well have used Nexus at some point even if you don't play Bethesda games - it also hosts mods for the likes of The Witcher 3, Mount and Blade, World of Tanks, Starbound, XCOM, Far Cry 3 and hundreds of others.

There's been a possible hack, with some Fallout 4 mod-makers reporting suspicious changes having been made to their uploaded files. At the very least, we need new passwords for Nexus Mods, the site which has long hosted a gazillion mods for 216 games, particularly Bethesda RPGs - including Fallout 4, which has not yet followed Skyrim to the Steam Workshop. We should probably take this as a reminder to go and change our passwords on everything, and make sure no two sites or services have the same login, I guess.

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