Sega Europe has today revealed that “unauthorised entry was gained to the SEGA Pass system and 1,290,755 customers’ information including SEGA Pass members name, email addresses, dates of birth and encrypted passwords were obtained.”
In an interview with CVG Sega went on to say that they will “further strengthen our network security as a priority issue and strive to prevent any potential recurrence”.
They then continued, saying, “We express our sincerest apologies to our customers for the inconvenience and concern caused by this matter. SEGA Pass is the service used to provide information about our new products to registered members and does not hold any customer financial information. After the unauthorized entry was identified, we immediately stopped the SEGA Pass service and took emergency action to prevent further damage. This action included immediately contacting all our registered SEGA Pass users.”
“We are now fully investigating the cause of the incident. We have also examined the possibility of any other information loss from unauthorized access across our other services and can confirm there are no other verified incidents. We will immediately report through the website of SEGA Europe Ltd. (www.sega.com) should there be any further developments regarding this issue. We deeply regret that such unauthorized access occurred.”
Thankfully Sega has said no financial information was stored where the hack took place. Sadly it is doubtful this will be the last of our ‘Hack Attack’ articles.
The tally of hacked companies now looks somethign like this; SEGA, Epic, Bethesda, EVE Online, Square Enix, Codemasters, Nintendo & Sony.
