The Mess Hall

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

wtf why are people targeting these gaming companys..

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).

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.

kill him - no mercy

...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...