14 DAY TRIAL // It seems that it will be a long hot summer for video game companies that are concerned about their security as word comes that the SEGA official website and forums have been hacked by an unknown group which has managed to steal the personal information of close to 1.3 million users.
It seems that the information includes the name of members, the email addresses they used to create accounts, passwords and dates of birth.
All of this information can then be used by hackers to get access to the finances of targeted customers but SEGA says that no actual financial information has been stolen from its own servers.
A statement from SEGA says, “We express our sincerest apologies to our customers for the inconvenience and concern caused by this matter. SEGA Pass is the service used to provide information about our new products to registered members and does not hold any customer financial information.”
It adds, “We are now fully investigating the cause of the incident. We have also examined the possibility of any other information loss from unauthorized access across our other services and can confirm there are no other verified incidents.”
The weird twist in the SEGA hacking case is that LulzSec, a group that has recently claimed it was behind attacks against the servers of Minecraft, EVE Online and publisher Bethesda, has not claimed this most recent assault.
In fact that company posted Twitter messages offering its help to SEGA, promising to “destroy the hackers that attacked you” because apparently, “we love the Dreamcast, these people are going down.”
The recent attacks have nowhere near the intensity of the problems that Sony has seen near the end of April when the PlayStation Network has been taken down and the personal information of more than 70 million users was stolen.