Gamers: change your passwords pronto as Sega becomes the latest victim of a hack attack with over 1 million users details now at risk.The gamer confirmed the “unauthorised entry” attack in an email to its Sega Pass user base last Thursday as it pulled the system offline.
The stolen accounts included personal details of its users including names, email addresses and passwords, although the latter was encrypted, it said.
“We have identified that a subset of SEGA Pass members emails addresses, dates of birth and encrypted passwords were obtained.”
However, Sega insisted no personal payment or credit card details was among the hacked information as it uses external payment providers, reasuring its 1.3 million gamers “your payment details were not at risk from this intrusion.”
And it has urged Pass members to change existing passwords immediately and be on the alert for suspect emails as it could be linked to the attack, the source of which is yet unknown.
The Sonic maker has also confirmed it has moved to reset all existing passwords.
“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.”
The gamer is the latest victim of hackers with other big players including rival Sony Playstation network as well as Nintendo also subject to serious hacks in recent months, although Sony was notably slow in notifying its 77 million users of the first attack which was linked with the hacking group Anonymous.
And it appears another notorious army of hackers, LulzSec, are firmly denying any involvement in the latest high profile attack, offering Sega a helping hand in bringing the hackers to justice.
“@Sega – contact us. We want to help you destroy the hackers that attacked you. We love the Dreamcast, these people are going down,” it tweeted a day after the announcement
Sega also issued an unrefuted apology to Pass account holders: “We sincerely apologise for this incident and regret any inconvenience caused.”
However, it failed to confirm when the system will be back up.
