Sega rep: we’re “hack proof” (for now)
Even though Sega’s involvement in the hacking episode last month has well and truly blown over, insofar that LulzSec have now disbanded despite claiming to not be responsible for the incident, it seems that Sega is still feeling the effect of the attack. The Register is reporting that despite Sega’s website functioning, the forums are not after 1.3 million users had (among other things) encrypted passwords and e-mail addresses taken during the incident. The reason? According to a Sega representative, to ensure the website is “hack proof” while forum testing continues. Whether this is paranoia of another attack or Sega wants to increase the security of their forums is unconfirmed, and Sega have declined to reveal any potential restoration date. If more information becomes available, we’ll be sure to let you know.
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We will be lucky if SEGA gets forums online for Generations relase…
That rep made a big mistake with that comment, because black hat hackers will try harder to show the company otherwise.
Might be cynical, but I have to agree with AM. If SONY came out and said something like this they’d have more people than ever after them, just so they could disprove it.
Hopefully this doesn’t happen again though.
I thought LulzSec said they DIDN’T hack them because they “love the dreamcast”?
Just a typo. Will be fixed when I get back home later
Has it really been a month?
Yeah, Dan, it’s been a month.
Amazing. They’ve been down as long as Sony, now. And isn’t Sony’s servers still down?
I’m dying to get back on the SEGA forums. This is taking way too long; hopefully they make good use of all this time and get the security situation under control.
I hope their blogs go back up as well as the forums.
Where did he say “we’re hackproof”? The article says as far as possible not the arrogant claim made in your headline.
I am so fucking over this “Let’s hack everybody” Bullshit with the video game industry as of late: big companies or websites like this.
Those fuckers really need to cut that shit out, let me enjoy my video games already. Assholes.
Well, that’s one way to put it, Haru. I’m ticked off too.
When will they go back on thats what I want to know, I miss the forums