Sega the latest to suffer big cyber attack
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June 20, 2011, Monday
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JAPANESE video game developer Sega Corp yesterday said information belonging to 1.3 million customers has been stolen from its database, the latest in a rash of global cyber attacks against video game companies.
Names, birth dates, e-mail addresses and passwords of users of Sega Pass online network members had been compromised, Sega said, though payment data, including credit card numbers, were safe. The company shut down Sega Pass.
"We are deeply sorry for causing trouble to our customers. We want to work on strengthening security," said Yoko Nagasawa, a Sega spokeswoman, adding it is unclear when the firm would restart Sega Pass.
The attack against Sega, a division of Sega Sammy Holdings that makes game software such as Sonic the Hedgehog, follows other significant breaches, including Citigroup, which said more than 360,000 accounts were hit in May, and the International Monetary Fund.
The drama surrounding the recent round of video game breaches paled compared to what PlayStation maker Sony Corp experienced following two high-profile attacks that surfaced in April. Those breaches led to the theft of account data for more than 100 million customers.
Names, birth dates, e-mail addresses and passwords of users of Sega Pass online network members had been compromised, Sega said, though payment data, including credit card numbers, were safe. The company shut down Sega Pass.
"We are deeply sorry for causing trouble to our customers. We want to work on strengthening security," said Yoko Nagasawa, a Sega spokeswoman, adding it is unclear when the firm would restart Sega Pass.
The attack against Sega, a division of Sega Sammy Holdings that makes game software such as Sonic the Hedgehog, follows other significant breaches, including Citigroup, which said more than 360,000 accounts were hit in May, and the International Monetary Fund.
The drama surrounding the recent round of video game breaches paled compared to what PlayStation maker Sony Corp experienced following two high-profile attacks that surfaced in April. Those breaches led to the theft of account data for more than 100 million customers.
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