Sega's online Pass hacked, 1.3 million user passwords stolen

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Let's bid a bitter welcome to Sega, the latest entrant to the newly founded club of hacked online communities. Sega Pass, the company's web portal, suffered a breach of its defenses on Thursday, which has now been identified to have affected a whopping 1.29 million users. Usernames, real names, birth dates, passwords, email addresses, pretty much everything has been snatched up by the malicious data thieves, with the important exception of credit / debit card numbers. We'd still advise anyone affected to keep a watchful eye on his or her banking transactions -- immediately after changing that compromised password, of course. In the meantime, Sega's keeping the Pass service offline while it rectifies the vulnerability; it'll be able to call on an unexpected ally in its search for the perpetrators in the form of LulzSec, a hacker group that boasted proudly about infiltrating Sony's network, but which has much more benevolent intentions with respect to Sega. What a topsy-turvy world we live in!






So another one to the list!! is there any ending to all this
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wtf why are people targeting these gaming companys..
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It's not just gaming companies...I guess with the global recession, selling name lists is quite attractive. And selling card details is even more attractive although it seems more elusive (fortunately - if it's the case and not just PR bullshit).
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13859868
A teenager has been arrested in a joint Scotland Yard and FBI investigation into the hacking of websites.
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kill him - no mercy
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...if only because he lives in Essex, never mind whether he did the hacking or not :)
Searches at a residential address in Wickford, Essex, following the arrest last night, have led to the examination of a significant amount of material.
I bet...

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