The EMS is a victim of the wave of hacker attacks against game companies. Its online network SEGA Pass was attacked recently, a situation that the company only acknowledged on Thursday. At this point, any access to SEGA Pass has been disabled while SEGA decides what further action to avoid major problems.
Accessing the page SEGA Pass, the user is met with the message reproduced below, informed that the network is unavailable. They talk about improvements, but at no time said that there was a hacker attack.
"SEGA Pass is undergoing some improvements, so is currently unavailable to new members who want to register or existing members who want to modify your information, including re-enter passwords.
We hope to be back and running very soon. "
offline
By e-mail the picture painted by SEGA is another. The company fired message this morning for their user base. In it, SEGA announced that identify unauthorized access to the database SEGA Pass in the last 24 hours. The appropriate measures were taken, according to the company.
SEGA confirms that the e-mail, encrypted passwords and dates of birth of the users were exposed and the Pass obtained by hackers during the attack. As a result, the company decided to reset all system passwords. The point at which the gap was exploited is also "isolated," according to SEGA.
From all this, the only good news is that all the information of payments made within the SEGA Pass is not on the servers of SEGA. That is, the hackers did not have access to such data.
