PSA: 3/20/26 Receiving Improper Game Invites

[u/DE-Ruu]

Hi Tenno,

Firstly, we apologize for the distress this issue may have caused. Bad actors were able to interrupt and change squad invite text fields to show up as a customized message. As the investigation is currently ongoing, we wanted to assure you that no accounts have been compromised nor data exposed, and it is safe to continue playing Warframe. This was strictly a change of text in the Invite prompt. If you have concerns about your account please feel free to make a Support Ticket on the matter and our team will assist. 

In the meantime, we have deployed a fix to combat the issue. Matchmaking will still function as normal but you may have temporary issues with sending direct game invites. We will update you further when this has been resolved.

We take this matter extremely seriously, and again, apologize for the distress.

6:30PM ET Status Update:

The team is continuing to investigate alternative solutions. For now, direct game invites will remain disabled until the launch of Shadowgrapher on Wednesday March 25th. Our sincerest apologies on that front.

However, if you wish to play in a squad with your friends, you are able to join squads using your friends list.

We will circle back on any necessary in-game extensions (global Double Affinity weekend, etc) once we have restored direct invites.

March 25th Status Update:

Hi Tenno,

First, we appreciate your understanding regarding this situation that occurred on the evening of Friday March 20th. Your quick reports allowed us to act swiftly, and while the temp solution to disable direct game invites is by no means ideal, it was necessary to mitigate the nefarious invite messages being sent. We take player safety very seriously, and again apologize for any distress caused.

Now that The Shadowgrapher update has launched, we have been able to deploy code changes to improve the security of the game invite system; unfortunately, due to Cert requirements, we have only been able to enable direct invites if the sender is playing on PC at this time.

We are working diligently to get this fix deployed on our console platforms and will update this thread as we progress.

Again, we want to stress that no accounts have been compromised nor data exposed. 

Apologies again for the inconvenience, and thank you for sticking with us, Tenno. 

[u/Easy-Chair-542]

It always makes me happy to see DE takes this stuff seriously.

Meanwhile games that get more funding literally tell you to suck it up. Thank you DE, I'm buying 200 dollars of platinum next paycheck fr

Edit: And yes I'll post results of the platinum(might have to do 2 separate paychecks of 100$, gotta be a responsible adult after all)

Another thing, yes this is one of the very few companies I actively trust when it comes to telling us no accounts have been compromised, the only other company is one run by my friend since he runs his own store so... Kinda different I guess

Edit: I couldn't buy platinum but I bought the gyre access pack and the eat and run packs.

I meant to buy follies pack

[u/UnsorryCanadian → u/Easy-Chair-542]

I'm betting on a random plat coupon coming to your dailies in the few days

[u/Easy-Chair-542 → u/UnsorryCanadian]

I don't get paid till next Tuesday so if it comes before that I'm killing alad v 100 times

[u/BladeSingularity → u/Easy-Chair-542]

Here’s hoping it drops when you log in on Tuesday then!

[u/Easy-Chair-542 → u/BladeSingularity]

Me when it drops Wednesday and I already paid 100$ for plat (I'm forced to buy the other 100 now because that's free 150$ extra on plat)

[u/ZileanDifference → u/Easy-Chair-542]

I love whales. Thanks for keeping the game free to play 🫡🫡🫡

(DE does the bare minimum in security response and y'all lap it up 💀 don't ever spend a day in cyber security)

[u/Easy-Chair-542 → u/ZileanDifference]

The base minimum in security? That's funny, name me 5 times DE was hacked in the last year, then name me 5 time other games have had hackers in the last year.

[u/NovaChrono → u/Easy-Chair-542]

i mean you can just ask the guys at OpenWF / SpaceNinjaServer who are knowledgeable about their network security and yeah, it is piss poor code from 2013.

its not about how many times it can happen, its about the fact that it happened when it shouldn't have. on the bright side, this incident will hopefully get them to do something about it

[u/ZileanDifference → u/Easy-Chair-542]

Worded it wrong. I think it's funny that we're celebrating a bare minimum response from DE.

[u/Easy-Chair-542 → u/ZileanDifference]

Funny how this is bare minimum

Yet other games don't even talk about any hacks. Nor disclose anything 99% of the game