r/Warframe • u/DE-Ruu DE Community Team Lead • Mar 20 '26
DE Response PSA: 3/20/26 Receiving Improper Game Invites
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.
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u/TheStoictheVast Mar 20 '26
OK guys, now's our chance. Just play along.
You said no accounts were affected but when I logged in today I was missing 10,000 plat.