1.3 Million Affected By Sega Pass Hack
Sega said yesterday that approximately 1.3 million of its users are affected by the breach that came to light last week.
Last Thursday, Sega confirmed that its online gaming network, Sega Pass, had been targeted by hackers. The culprits brought the network to its knees and Sega soon revealed that customers’ personal data had been compromised. This included names, dates of birth, email addresses, and passwords. Sega said the passwords were encrypted and financial details, which are stored on another server, are safe.
However, up until now, the scope of the attack had yet to be determined. Sega this past weekend revealed just how many customers were affected by the breach. In a statement released yesterday, the Dreamcast maker confirmed that the names, birth dates, e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords of 1.3 million Sega Pass online network members had been compromised.
"We are deeply sorry for causing trouble to our customers. We want to work on strengthening security," Reuters cites Yoko Nagasawa, a Sega spokeswoman, as saying. Nagasawa said it was not yet clear when Sega Pass would be back up and running.
In a strange turn of events, the company behind many of the recent hacks against Sony and Nintendo, Lulzsec, has offered to track down those responsible for the Sega hack.
"@Sega - contact us. We want to help you destroy the hackers that attacked you,” the group tweeted. “We love the Dreamcast, these people are going down."
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lulzsec offer => wolf crying over slayed sheep
I paid $32.67 for a XBOX 360 and my mom got a 17 inch Toshiba laptop for $94.83 being delivered to our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again pay expensive retail prices at stores. I even sold a 46 inch HDTV to my boss for $650 and it only cost me $52.78 to get. Here is the website we using to get all this stuff, GrabPenny.com
lulzsec offer => wolf crying over slayed sheep
they're more like sheep crying over killed bugs ... they're not wolves, they're simply too immature to be real predators
In a strange turn of events, the company behind many of the recent hacks against Sony and Nintendo, Lulzsec, has offered to track down those responsible for the Sega hack.
Yet they're as-of-yet to attack Microsoft.
Yet they're as-of-yet to attack Microsoft.
Maybe they've tried. I think that maybe Microsoft's defense's are a little tougher to break into, can't say the same about Apple's.
Maybe they've tried. I think that maybe Microsoft's defense's are a little tougher to break into, can't say the same about Apple's.
Indeed, let us hope that M$ isn't dumb enough to fall for SQL injection attacks!
Hm... Microsoft security and apple's security should be tough enough to deter most hackers. Only the very determined ones will go through..
Oh no, whats next? EA? Activision? They better not attack Blizzard Damn you!
I doubt they would go after Microsoft, since Microsoft has made all their hacking possible in the first place. lol
If anything, they should send Bill Gates a thank you card.
Dang, so many spam...
This is what happens when Computer Science graduates cannot find a job; they start hacking big corporations.
Dang, so many spam...
This is what happens when Computer Science graduates cannot find a job; they start hacking big corporations.
...Unless they are CS grads in China - in which case they apparently get employed to spam forums with adverts for fake designer goods. I wonder how much these losers get paid for this "work".
I think we badly need a probationary period for newly created user accounts, limiting them to only a certain number of posts per hour + captcha. Just my two cents. If only LulzSec would nuke their websites from high-orbit!
Maybe they've tried. I think that maybe Microsoft's defense's are a little tougher to break into, can't say the same about Apple's.
Got an example?
...Unless they are CS grads in China - in which case they apparently get employed to spam forums with adverts for fake designer goods. I wonder how much these losers get paid for this "work".I think we badly need a probationary period for newly created user accounts, limiting them to only a certain number of posts per hour + captcha. Just my two cents. If only LulzSec would nuke their websites from high-orbit!
its all about the look. if i gave a flying f@#% about designer things, id get knock offs. rather pay less than 100$ for something that looks like it, than 1000+ for the real thing.
Lulzsec appears to have good intentions.
Indeed, let us hope that M$ isn't dumb enough to fall for SQL injection attacks!
Well, at the very least their passwords won't be cleartext like Sony. Actually Sega's passwords were encrypted too (as stated in the article), but I'm not sure how strong it is. Still, that alone demonstrates that Sega had better security practices in place than Sony, despite having only a fraction of the cash.
Lulzsec appears to have good intentions.
How do you know they weren't behind the attack, and aren't just trolling "for the lulz"? Don't be gullible enough to scratch them off the list of suspects. Besides, they've done plenty of other bad things.
Of course in a different display of gullibility, Sony thinks that Anon is responsible for their SQL injection breach, just because they found a text file that says "Anon wuz here". Oh man, it must have been them! That's some fine detective work there, Sherlock Sony!