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[Update]: Sega Says Hack Affected 1.3 Million Users
Update: Sega has released information regarding a recent security breach that puts the size of the attack into better perspective. According to the company, 1.3 million customers had their personal information taken from the company's Sega Pass network.
"We are deeply sorry for causing trouble to our customers. We want to work on strengthening security," said Sega spokeswoman Yoko Nagasawa, according to Reuters.
If you've ever used the Sega Pass service, now is a great time to change your passwords, especially if you use similar passwords elsewhere online.
Previous Update: This past week, Xbox Live account information was released by hacker group LulzSec. Sega also made its way onto the hacked list. In a strange turn of events, Lulz tweeted that the group would like to lend Sega a hand.
"Sega - contact us," Lulz tweeted. "We want to help you destroy the hackers that attacked you. We love the Dreamcast, these people are going down."
[Via Yahoo! News]
Original story: Sega has joined the ranks of Sony, Nintendo, Epic, Bethesda, and many others as the most recent victim in a string of serial hackings.
Members of the Sega Pass forums received an email today explaining the hack attack.
"We immediately took the appropriate action to protect our consumers' data and isolate the location of the breach," says the statement posted by Eurogamer. "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."
Sega has reset the passwords and requests Sega Pass users not to try to log-in to the forums until their fully operational. The company also apologizes for the breach.
When is this crap going to end?
