Hack Attack Exposes 1.3 Million Sega Accounts

Hack Attack Exposes 1.3 Million Sega Accounts [b]LulzSec says to watch your Facebook, Gmail, and Skype passwords,[/b] though no one has claimed responsibility for the Sega breach.

By Mathew J. Schwartz InformationWeek
June 20, 2011 06:13 PM

Another day, another hacked website belonging to a video game manufacturer. On Friday, Sega confirmed news reports that attackers had compromised its systems, exposing data on 1.3 million users. Sega took the hacked Sega Pass system, which is both a newsletter and account management system for the company’s online games, offline on Thursday. It gave no estimate for when the service would be restored.

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