It's getting ridiculous now. Sega's confirmed that its Pass system has been victim to a hack attack, with users' personal data stolen.
The publisher's confirmed that data obtained from the system, which is designed to deliver community members information on upcoming Sega games, includes passwords, e-mail addresses and dates of birth.
"As you may be aware, the SEGA Pass system has been offline since yesterday, Thursday 16 June.
"Over the last 24 hours we have identified that unauthorised entry was gained to our SEGA Pass database.
"We immediately took the appropriate action to protect our consumers' data and isolate the location of the breach. We have launched an investigation into the extent of the breach of our public systems.
"We have identified that a subset of SEGA Pass members emails addresses, dates of birth and encrypted passwords were obtained. To stress, none of the passwords obtained were stored in plain text.
"Please note that no personal payment information was stored by SEGA as we use external payment providers, meaning your payment details were not at risk from this intrusion.
"If you use the same login information for other websites and/or services as you do for SEGA Pass, you should change that information immediately."
Sega's the latest games industry firm to be targeted by hackers since the infamous PSN breach, following attacks on Bethesda, Codemasters, Nintendo and Square Enix.
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7 comments so far...
TechnoWolf on 17 Jun '11 said:
Why? I reason for all this stupid hacking would be nice :/
It's only a matter of time till they target steam >:I
markyR on 17 Jun '11 said:
If Steam was hacked then that would be the second time my details would be stolen
I think it's this Lulz group again anyway, but thankfully people seem to be getting bored of it all now so the media will stop publicising the hacks and they won't bother to do it anymore. I hope? And hopefully the Anonymous members that have been arrested will have the book thrown at them, then again they picked on all the governments of the world stealing information for wikileaks, they have kinda nailed their own coffin with that one.
cloakedvengance on 17 Jun '11 said:
Holy smoke this is really getting out of control, these hackers need to be stopped, I don't care what their original reasons were behind the attacks this has to stop as it is bad news for everyone involved in gaming, whether consumer or publisher the effects of this recent spate of hacking could be far reaching and very damaging to the entire industry.
TOKEN on 17 Jun '11 said:
Why do i feel gamers are gonna pay the price for a scam,example pay online with console antivirus?
Noobsaibot on 18 Jun '11 said:
Lulzsec apparently took down the CIA website the other day. Trust me, they WILL be caught. And once they are, I genuinely hope the get everything thrown at them.
jtthegame on 18 Jun '11 said:
hacking a cool company like sega is going to far
Skullet on 18 Jun '11 said:
My mum told me not to trust people online.
If this was a movie I'd maybe agree with you, but the reality is they will probably never catch the people responsible.