The company confirmed that e-mail to 25,000 customers who signed up for product updates, may have been stolen as a result.Summary of 350 people for a job at a Canadian office may also have been copied from a Web server.
Square Enix, which makes the popular Final Fantasy, Deus Ex and Tomb Raider game, apologized for the violation.
In a statement, he said: "Square Enix can confirm a group of hackers gained access to parts of our site Eidosmontreal.com as well as two of our websites product.
"We immediately took forum site to assess how it happened and what has been accessed, then took further steps to improve the safety of these and all our Web sites before allowing the site to go live again."
It is clear that the sites affected were Eidosmontreal.com, Eidos managed by Square Enix subsidiary and Deusex.com, a promotional site for upcoming game, Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
Scammer dream
Graham Cluley, consultant at Sophos security firm, warned that a leak can cause problems for those concerned.
"With the email there is a danger that players can be sent by e-mail from someone pretending to be from a company that makes them click on a link or run some malicious software," he told BBC News.
"Summary of the basis for identity theft. They have all crooks want. The only thing missing is the credit card information.
Cluley noted that there is also enormous potential for embarrassment, as it was unlikely those who have applied for jobs would be at their current employers to know.
Square Enix says that there is no evidence that information was disseminated.
He also stressed that the company does not hold customers' credit card information at its web servers.
Mr Chippy
Shortly after the attack, the site displays a message "owned Chippy1337", as well as several other well-known names attacker, including Xero, XIX and Venuism.
However, it appears that some or all of these names may have been misappropriated from the real attackers.
Lara Croft Tomb Raider Eidos-owned maker of one of the hacked sites. The company belongs to Square Enix
Magazines Internet Relay Chat (IRC) conversations appeared on the Internet that appear to show the perpetrators discussing a hack, as they carried it out.
In one section, the persons involved wrote: "We put it in the name of chippy1337 write the names of Ryan, DFS, Xero, Nikon, XIX, venuism and evilhom3r.
And the same person, then add a comment, "LOL [laughing out loud]."
Security in the video game industry has been in the spotlight in recent weeks after a hacker attack on Sony PlayStation Network and the SOE system of online multiplayer.
Personal data of over 100 million users were stolen from company servers.
Investigations into the source of data breaches continues, with a specialist computer forensic teams and the FBI are involved.
PlayStation Network remains offline, more than three weeks after the invasion was detected.
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