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Warrior_of_Freedom
06-17-2011, 11:38 AM
http://mashable.com/2011/06/17/sega-pass-hacked/


SEGA Pass, the gaming company’s member database and online network, has been hacked.

SEGA took the SEGA Pass system offline Thursday. Friday morning, it sent an email to Pass members alerting them that an unauthorized and unidentified third party had gained access to the SEGA Pass database.

Members’ email addresses, dates of birth and encrypted passwords were obtained in the attack, according to the company.

SEGA is also telling members that it has reset their passwords, that all access to SEGA Pass has been temporarily suspended and that Pass users should consider changing their passwords on other sites.

No party has stepped up to claim responsibility as of yet, though hacker group LulzSec tweeted at SEGA Friday morning: “We want to help you destroy the hackers that attacked you. We love the Dreamcast, these people are going down.”

Meanwhile, LulzSec recently claimed responsibility for hacking Sony’s and Nintendo’s servers, taking down the CIA’s website and hacking the U.S. Senate.

The full contents of the email SEGA sent to Pass members can be seen below, courtesy of Playstationlifestyle.net:

Dear ___,

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.

We have also reset your password and all access to SEGA Pass has been temporarily suspended.

Additionally we recommend you please take extra caution if you should receive suspicious emails that ask for personal or sensitive information.

Therefore please do not attempt to login to SEGA Pass at present, we will communicate when the service becomes available.

We sincerely apologise for this incident and regret any inconvenience caused.

We are contacting all our members with these recommendations.

If you have any further questions please contact SEGA customer support on csescalations@sega.com

Now this is just getting effing ridiculous. How long will it be until a major bank is hacked?

Kelly.
06-17-2011, 11:54 AM
http://mashable.com/2011/06/17/sega-pass-hacked/



Now this is just getting effing ridiculous. How long will it be until a major bank is hacked?

is there any recourse for the consumer who has had their info hacked?

sadly, this will only lead to further regulations.

Pericles
06-17-2011, 11:57 AM
http://mashable.com/2011/06/17/sega-pass-hacked/



Now this is just getting effing ridiculous. How long will it be until a major bank is hacked again?
corrected ^

tropicangela
06-17-2011, 12:07 PM
is there any recourse for the consumer who has had their info hacked?

sadly, this will only lead to further regulations.


The main anti-LulzSec argument suggests that we're going to bring down more Internet laws by continuing our public shenanigans, and that our actions are causing clowns with pens to write new rules for you. But what if we just hadn't released anything? What if we were silent? That would mean we would be secretly inside FBI affiliates right now, inside PBS, inside Sony... watching... abusing...

http://pastebin.com/HZtH523f