Sega says hackers stole data of 1.29 million users

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Numbers are in and official on the Sega breach

c/p - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13829690

Sega has confirmed that the personal data of 1.29 million of its customers was stolen in an attack on its systems. It comes after the computer games firm said on Friday that e-mail addresses and dates of birth stored on the Sega Pass database were accessed by hackers.


However, Sega continues to say that payment information, such as credit card numbers, remained safe. Sega spokeswoman Yoko Nagasawa said: "We are deeply sorry for causing trouble to our customers."


She added: "We want to work on strengthening security."
Ms Nagasawa added that it was not yet known when the Sega Pass online network could be restarted.

In an e-mail sent to Sega Pass users on Friday, the company wrote: "Over the last 24 hours we have identified that unauthorized 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."
Sega explained that it had reset all passwords and urged customers to change their log-on details on other services and websites where they used the same credentials.


It added that password details had not been stored in plain text, suggesting that they may have been secured by some kind of encryption.
Sega is the latest in a line of games companies to suffer hacking and denial of service attacks on their online services. Nintendo, Sony and several multi-player gaming communities have been hit in recent months.


The hacker group Lulz Security, which has been involved in a number of high profile attacks, including one against Sega rival Nintendo, has denied involvement in the Sega case.


Instead it showed some sympathy for the company on its Twitter feed.
"We want to help you destroy the hackers that attacked you. We love the Dreamcast, these people are going down," it said.
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This makes me hesitant to sign up for all the secondary passes that developers tack on to sign into for MP...
 
[quote name='QiG']This makes me hesitant to sign up for all the secondary passes that developers tack on to sign into for MP...[/QUOTE]
What does that have to do with Sega getting hacked? Sega Pass is their website account system for their forums, newsletters, etc.
 
Anonymous and Lulzsec are just a bunch of assholes who can't conform to normal society. They need to have all of this attention so they are hurting people who are trying to live life. These guys need to grow up, move out of their parents' basements, and get real jobs.
 
[quote name='FriskyTanuki']What does that have to do with Sega getting hacked? Sega Pass is their website account system for their forums, newsletters, etc.[/QUOTE]

Because its another outlet for personal information to be out in the open. I guess I don't understand why companies can't track stats/usage/etc from the name you use to logon to live/psn in the first place.
 
[quote name='momouchi']Anonymous and Lulzsec are just a bunch of assholes who can't conform to normal society. They need to have all of this attention so they are hurting people who are trying to live life. These guys need to grow up, move out of their parents' basements, and get real jobs.[/QUOTE]

IDK... At least Lulz and Anon has a public face rather then others out there who hack , crack , inject and never report or brag about it. In some respects if you have a site and don't update it or don't keep up to date on security then it does become funny when people get hacked so to speak cause they couldn't take 5 mins to update and prevent attacks on a site , forum or blog.

From Lulz
Yes, yes, there's always the argument that releasing everything in full is just as evil, what with accounts being stolen and abused, but welcome to 2011. This is the lulz lizard era, where we do things just because we find it entertaining. Watching someone's Facebook picture turn into a penis and seeing their sister's shocked response is priceless. Receiving angry emails from the man you just sent 10 dildos to because he can't secure his Amazon password is priceless. You find it funny to watch havoc unfold, and we find it funny to cause it. We release personal data so that equally evil people can entertain us with what they do with it.

Most of you reading this love the idea of wrecking someone else's online experience anonymously. It's appealing and unique, there are no two account hijackings that are the same, no two suddenly enraged girlfriends with the same expression when you admit to killing prostitutes from her boyfriend's recently stolen MSN account, and there's certainly no limit to the lulz lizardry that we all partake in on some level.
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Do you think every hacker announces everything they've hacked? We certainly haven't, and we're damn sure others are playing the silent game. Do you feel safe with your Facebook accounts, your Google Mail accounts, your Skype accounts? What makes you think a hacker isn't silently sitting inside all of these right now, sniping out individual people, or perhaps selling them off? You are a peon to these people. A toy. A string of characters with a value.

This is what you should be fearful of, not us releasing things publicly, but the fact that someone hasn't released something publicly. We're sitting on 200,000 Brink users right now that we never gave out. It might make you feel safe knowing we told you, so that Brink users may change their passwords. What if we hadn't told you? No one would be aware of this theft, and we'd have a fresh 200,000 peons to abuse, completely unaware of a breach.
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We've been entertaining you 1,000 times with 140 characters or less, and we'll continue creating things that are exciting and new until we're brought to justice, which we might well be. But you know, we just don't give a living fuck at this point - you'll forget about us in 3 months' time when there's a new scandal to gawk at, or a new shiny thing to click on via your 2D light-filled rectangle…

This is the Internet, where we screw each other over for a jolt of satisfaction. There are peons and lulz lizards; trolls and victims.
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If they were really doing all of this to help people, they would simply notify the websites that had the problem w/o stealing anything or releasing the information of innocent people.
 
What I really hope is that someone is tracking these guys down, like the FBI. The only way to get them to stop is to arrest them.
 
I think it's pretty simple just don't use real information whenever something is not being sent to your house. Or it is something that is not necessary. Think about it if it ever does come a point you need to add real information just make another account with real information. They don't need my address, real name, ect.

I like how "Lulz" loves the dreamcast:lol:
 
[quote name='Dr Mario Kart']The news here is that Sega has over a million customers.[/QUOTE]

LoL true.

I don't see why this hack is such a big deal; it's not like Sega is in the console market and has an online store than can be compromised like PSN with people's CC # and information.
 
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