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Monday, June 20, 2011

Hackers took over 1.29 million of information on accounts Sega

The company Sega has officially confirmed that the company carried out a hacker attack to be successful.As a result of her attackers managed to capture information on 1.29 million user accounts, which blew the company to suspend the operation of on-line service Sega Pass.Among the stolen information were the names, email addresses and dates of birth of users.However, as reported, information about passwords and credit card numbers are not stored in clear text, so do not become the property of hackers.Sega representative Yoko Nagasawa (Yoko Nagasawa), said: "We are extremely sorry for the inconvenience granted to users.We will work to strengthen the security system. "However, she could not say when the service will work again Sega Pass.

The company Sega also announced that it has changed all user passwords, as well as encouraged them to change passwords on other sites, where we use the same or similar character combinations.Also it was learned that the action undertaken by a group of hackers do not LulzSec, which has been active in recent years, including noted the success of the attacks on the database of Sony and Nintendo.It is worth noting that in comparison with the attack on the network Sony PSN number of victims on the order of less - was stolen while the information on more than eighty million accounts.No less interesting is the fact that hackers LulzSec promised to strike at those who undertook the attack on the Sega Pass.

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