Games Thirst – Amazing Life
Yes we know, the headline is all over the place, but it does, in a nutshell, bring life to what’s happened to former console manufacturer, and now games publisher, Sega. The firm was hacked by unknown culprits, prompting the Sonic creator to take its services offline until further notice. Lulz Sec are apparently Sega fans, and when the hacker group heard of the situation, they immediately stood behind it, promising to “take down” the “Sega hackers”.
Sega’s since then responded to the chaos, promising to take all necessary measures to make sure this doesn’t happen in the future. Get the full lot below the break.
“We immediately took the appropriate action to protect our consumers’ data and isolate the location of the breach,” read the statement. “We have launched an investigation into the extent of the breach of our public systems,” said Sega in an email sent to members of the Sega Pass forums.
“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’s reset all the passwords and encouraged that if you use the same login information for other websites that you change it immediately.
The firm also asked users not to attempt to login to the Sega forums until a notification was sent that it was safe to go back online.
“We sincerely apologise for this incident and regret any inconvenience caused.”
As for who attacked the firm, Sega’s responded:
“We take the security of our customers data very seriously and constantly review our security measures. The protection of data is an evolving process, as new defences are created so new threats emerge. We will make all improvements necessary as a result of this intrusion.”
