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psuexv
06-20-2011, 08:32 AM
Sega reveals data breach affecting 1.3 million users


Sega says personal data from 1.3 million members of its online network were swiped in a breach, Reuters reports.

Although the video game publisher says credit card data is safe, information such as names, birthdates, e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords were compromised.

The online network Sega Pass has been shut down to bolster security. "We are deeply sorry for causing trouble to our customers. We want to work on strengthening security," said Yoko Nagasawa, a Sega spokeswoman, in the Reuters report.

The Sega breach is the latest in a long line of cyber attacks affecting several video game companies including Sony, Nintendo, Bethesda Softworks and Square Enix.

psuexv
06-20-2011, 08:32 AM
:smh:

SmoothPancakes
06-20-2011, 08:37 AM
Yeah, I got an email from SEGA about that back on Friday.


Dear,

As you may be aware, the SEGA Pass system has been offline since yesterday, Thursday 16 June.

Over the last 24 hours we have identified that unauthorised entry was gained to our SEGA Pass database.

We immediately took the appropriate action to protect our consumers’ data and isolate the location of the breach. 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.

If you use the same login information for other websites and/or services as you do for SEGA Pass, you should change that information immediately.

We have also reset your password and all access to SEGA Pass has been temporarily suspended.

Additionally we recommend you please take extra caution if you should receive suspicious emails that ask for personal or sensitive information.

Therefore please do not attempt to login to SEGA Pass at present, we will communicate when the service becomes available.

We sincerely apologise for this incident and regret any inconvenience caused.

We are contacting all our members with these recommendations.

If you have any further questions please contact SEGA customer support on csescalations@sega.com