1.3 Million Accounts Affected in Sega Pass Attack

Sega of Japan has announced that Thursday's attack on the Sega Pass system has resulted in the theft of personal information from approximately 1.3 million user accounts, according to Reuters.

While that personal information included names, birth dates, and encrypted passwords of Sega Pass users, it did not include any credit card information, as announced in a statement released Thursday by Sega to the media and Sega Pass account holders.

The Sega Pass system is still down at the time of this posting. Sites that use Sega Pass (such as the official forums) are also down for "essential maintenance". Sega did not say when service would return.

While any server breach is certainly a cause for concern, this theft of information is a far cry from the scope of recent incidents such as the Sony breach last month which resulted in the theft of 77 million user accounts. Don't forget to change your passwords when the Sega Pass system returns!

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Sega says 1.3 million users affected by cyber attack (Reuters)