Tag Archives: hacking
Sun, Jun 19, 2011 | 09:44 BST
Sega confirms 1.3m Sega Pass customers’ details “obtained”
Sega said in a press released today that 1,290,755 Sega Pass users’ details were stolen in Friday’s website hack, including names, email addresses, dates of birth and encrypted passwords.
Sat, Jun 18, 2011 | 17:05 BST
LulzSec publishes file containing PayPal, XBL, and Facebook account information
LulzSec published a filed yesterday which supposedly contained login and password information for users of Facebook, PayPal, Twitter, “dating sites,” and Xbox Live.
Fri, Jun 17, 2011 | 18:01 BST
SEGA reveals SEGA Pass sites have been hacked
Another day, another gaming website hacked. This time it’s SEGA, and the firm has sent out emails informing customers that its SEGA Pass suite of websites, including its “game forums and press resource sites,” have been compromised, reports GI.biz.
Fri, Jun 17, 2011 | 07:43 BST
Anon: Sony attacks dropped, PSN users were “butthurt”
A VG247 interview has confirmed that Anonymous has dropped action against Sony, as well as branding PSN users “selfish” and “butthurt” over their anger at the service’s recent outage.
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Posted in: Featured Story, Legalities, PS3, Politics, Sony
Tags: Anonymous, ddos, hacking
Tue, Jun 14, 2011 | 15:55 BST
Tretton: PSN hack was “wake-up call,” 90% of users returned
SCEA CEO Jack Tretton has admitted the recent hack attack on PlayStation Network gave the company a “wakeup call.”
Mon, Jun 13, 2011 | 16:46 BST
Bethesda confirms personal data compromised
Bethesda’s confirmed that hackers have compromised personal data belonging to users on its websites and the stats site for Brink.
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Posted in: Bethesda, Legalities
Tags: Hack attacks, hacking
Fri, Jun 10, 2011 | 16:37 BST
Codemasters hacked, personal data compromised
Codemasters has confirmed that its website had suffered an “attack” and “intrusion” last Saturday.
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Posted in: Codemasters
Tags: hackers, hacking
Sun, Jun 05, 2011 | 23:41 BST
Nintendo of America servers hacked
Nintendo of American has announced its servers suffered an attack by hackers, but that no personal information was compromised.
Tue, May 31, 2011 | 03:48 BST
Hackers: “This is the beginning of the end for Sony”
A hacker group has threatened imminent and drastic action against Sony – when it finishes with PBS.
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Posted in: PSN, PlayStation Store, Sony
Tags: hack, hackers, hacking, Lulzsec, PSN outage
Fri, May 13, 2011 | 07:50 BST
Eidos, Deus Ex websites hacked, personal info stolen
The public websites for Eidos and its upcoming game Deus Ex: Human Revolution were apparently “defaced and plundered” in an attack on Wednesday, believed to have its origins within hacktivist group Anonymous.
Thu, May 05, 2011 | 00:21 BST
Report: PlayStation 3 hackers restore OtherOS
Hackers have reportedly circumvented Sony’s firmware removal of the PlayStation 3′s OtherOS feature, which historically permitted the user to install a version of Linux on their console.
Wed, May 04, 2011 | 02:53 BST
Another team added to Sony’s PSN investigation
Sony has added a third security firm to its PlayStation Network attack investigation, alongside US Homeland Security and the FBI.
Wed, May 04, 2011 | 00:00 BST
PSN and SOE attacks “similar”, exploited “shared architecture”
Sony Online Entertainment has said that its own network and the PSN share architecture to “some degree”, and that both attacks were “similar in nature”.
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Posted in: Sony Online Entertainment
Tags: hacked, hacking, PSN outage
Tue, May 03, 2011 | 14:59 BST
SOE: 12,700 old CC numbers, 10,700 DD records breached
The hits just keep coming for Sony. Following all-too-soon after the news that Sony Online Entertainment servers had been taken offline, the company has now confirmed that it “may” have lost 12,700 customer credit card numbers.
Tue, May 03, 2011 | 06:13 BST
SOE takes servers offline thanks to “intrusion”
Sony Online Entertainment has taken its services offline after apparently being hacked.
Fri, Apr 29, 2011 | 14:30 BST
Rumour: PSN member credit card numbers on sale in hacker underground
The cyber-security community and its shadowy cousin are abuzz today with rumours that hackers are offering to sell a database of 2.2 million credit card details stolen from Sony’s network.
Wed, Apr 27, 2011 | 08:11 BST
Sony: Delay in info leak warning due to “forensic analysis”
Sony has issued a new statement on last week’s PSN info leak, seeking to explain why it took the firm nearly seven days to report data as having been compromised.
Wed, Apr 27, 2011 | 07:32 BST
Supposed hacker chat-logs reveal PSN security lapses
A supposed chat log recorded from a discussion between PSN hackers has shown that data on the service wasn’t properly encrypted and that in the early days of PSN “you could see userpass, etc, plain”.
Tue, Apr 26, 2011 | 08:25 BST
PSN down for six days, Sony warns of “time intensive” fix
Sony has finally updated the public on the ongoing PSN outage, as the service has now been offline for six days.
Spoiler: it’s bad news.
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