Sega Pass Database Hacked, Account Information Compromised
Over the past few months, a slew of hacks, DDoS attacks and data breaches have rocked the gaming world. After the infamous hack of the PlayStation Network, many thought that it would be the end of the attacks, but publishers like Nintendo, Bethesda, Codemasters and Epic have all suffered from various breaches in security. The hackers have struck again, this time infiltrating Sega’s database.
Only moments ago, Sega sent out an email to their Sega Pass users informing them of the hack:
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
With hacker group LulzSec having admitted to some of the attacks on game publishers, it is possible that they may be behind this intrusion, although they have yet to claim responsibility.
9 Responses to “Sega Pass Database Hacked, Account Information Compromised”
honestly I don’t get this…why the sudden onslaught of attacks on the video game industry?? What do these hackers hope to gain by this?
Yeah, the PSN attack made financial sense with all the credit cards and user info, but these attacks are just weird
This is just ridiculous. These people need to get a life. All they are doing at this point is making all companies everywhere reconsider their security, and making governments think about establishing new laws to prosecute people like this, much more so than before.
Are people really this sad and pathetic? From what I’ve heard, it’s just a bunch of DDoS attacks though, and not anything more than that. Really though, they need to stop. They’re ruining a ton of people’s good times by constantly attacking Video Game industries. It obviously has nothing to do with Sony, since Nintendo doesn’t support Sony’s products, so I don’t understand their reasoning behind it.
If this is really about hacking consoles and shit, then their reasons are even more retarded than they seem.
There were some DDoS attacks, but this one is worse than that considering emails and data was stolen
Other than the obvious on the surface attacks there may be another agenda behind this. With children more dependant on the Internet today than they were decades ago. These attacks serve to create anger and discontent. The “hackers” want to get you to believe life as they do. They “want” things for free and they are not beyond going out and “STEALING” those items and then having others pay.
And that is the method they are using to then get people angry enough to go after the company that was hacked. It is all about getting people in the streets so that they as “Anarchists” can go out in the real world to do the same thing they do in the cyber world.
They want to take down Society to the point that Anarchy is the rule instead of the exception.
this is all the eve of a new cyber regulations act
is just a matter of time for government to get a strong grip on internet security
Lets stop skirting the issue and call it what it is. Cyber terrorism, simple and plain. Need to find and arrest and send these POS’s to gitmo where they belong.
They keep it up i can see the government making it so tough to log on you would have to get clearance from the pentagon to use a computer online. But who knows maybe they want it harder to use a computer then all their “hacking” skills will be useless once they cant even get online because they made the government crack down harder. The future of internet retina scans, voice prints, DNA scans, and blood tests..just wait and see..lol