Hacked SEGA Pass service servers

It seems that hacking the servers of various companies has already become a good tradition among certain categories of citizens. This year, more than ever, activity of various kinds of hackers (well, or cybercriminals, if you do not consider it possible to use the term "hacker" in this context) is manifested. Either the abnormal activity of our luminary is to blame, or is it just a coincidence, but this year everything is hacked. Honestly, if something else had been hacked, and not the server of my beloved Sega company, I would have passed this news. But this is SEGA! Interestingly, LulzSec has nothing to do with this time. But let's see what happened there.

So on Thursday, the SEGA Pass systemwent offline. It was disabled by company experts who discovered the hack, this time no DDoS. An unknown group of hackers (or not a group, is still unknown) gained access to the user database. The volume of the database obtained by the attackers is also not yet known, but it is known that hackers managed to get users' e-mails, birth dates and passwords (in encrypted form).

Having discovered the fact of hacking, Sega immediately reacted by turning off the system and asking users to urgently change passwords for access to other Sega services.

So far, no one has claimed responsibility for what happened, and LulzSec this time even defended SEGA, saying on Twitter that the group wants to help the company eliminate the attack. The desire to help is based on the fact that LulzSec likes Dreamcast, and the group believes that attackers should be punished. A curious statement, of course.

SEGA also reports that it hopes to bring the system into operation soon as soon as security issues are resolved. How long it takes to restore services is still unknown.

Via Mashable