Sega hack hits 1.29 million users | IT Code

19 Jun 2011
Last updated during 10:47 GMT

Sega is a latest games association to be hacked after attacks on Sony, Nintendo and others

Sega has reliable that a personal information of 1.29 million of a business was stolen in an conflict on a systems.

It comes after a mechanism games organisation pronounced on Friday that e-mail addresses and dates of birth stored on a Sega Pass database were accessed by hackers.

However, Sega continues to contend that remuneration information, such as credit label numbers, remained safe.

Sega mouthpiece Yoko Nagasawa said: ?We are deeply contemptible for causing difficulty to a customers.?

She added: ?We wish to work on strengthening security.?

Ms Nagasawa combined that it was not nonetheless famous when a Sega Pass online network could be restarted.

?Investigation?

In an e-mail sent to Sega Pass users on Friday, a association wrote: ?Over a final 24 hours we have identified that unapproved entrance was gained to a Sega Pass database.

?We immediately took a suitable movement to strengthen a consumers? information and besiege a plcae of a breach. We have launched an review into a border of a crack of a open systems.?

Sega explained that it had reset all passwords and urged business to change their log-on sum on other services and websites where they used a same credentials.

It combined that cue sum had not been stored in plain text, suggesting that they might have been cumulative by some kind of encryption.

Sega is a latest in a line of games companies to humour hacking and rejection of use attacks on their online services.

Nintendo, Sony and several multi-player gaming communities have been strike in new months.

The hacker organisation Lulz Security, that has been concerned in a series of high form attacks, including one opposite Sega opposition Nintento, has denied impasse in a Sega case.

Instead it showed some magnetism for a association on a Twitter feed.

?We wish to assistance we destroy a hackers that pounded you. We adore a Dreamcast, these people are going down,? it said.

source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/technology-13829690

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