Sega says hackers stole data of 1.29 million users

[smhinsey]

These data breaches are getting to the point where I am expecting politicians to start getting involved.

[makmanalp]

I sincerely hope the public cries to "DO SOMETHINGGG!!!!!11" don't result more aggressive surveillance, control and restrictions on the people and instead result in a set of best practices to follow by companies.

[dmix]

These vague assertions comes up in every single thread about hacking.

How would politicans get involved with hacking?

Firewalls? A hacking czar?

I doubt they can do anything besides make a few speeches and most of these hackers are in eastern europe or china.

[ketralnis]

While I agree that that will probably happen, the "solutions" politicians would have in mind will almost certainly mean regulation in areas that will make things difficult for most of us.

[ams6110]

Sega? I honestly didn't think they were still around.

[code_duck]

Though they don't have their own console, they're a rather large software publisher and developer at this point. Sega has a more than a few of their own popular game franchises, and also still does the arcade hardware/game business.

[rhizome]

Hah, that was my reaction, too: "In other news, Sega still exists!"

[hallowtech]

Lulz has a problem with someone else going after Sega, but thinks its all peachy when they're the ones behind the wheel exposing the faults? Either they are jealous or their intentions aren't to force people to take responsibility for poor security.

[zorked]

I think that comment of theirs was meant as irony. The Dreamcast is known for its radical fanboy community, so they made a comical reference to that by mentioning the Dreamcast and "aligning" themselves to Sega.

[Osmose]

Their intentions aren't to force people to take responsibility for poor security, and they never claimed otherwise: http://pastebin.com/HZtH523f

[fragsworth]

Storing passwords in plaintext should probably be illegal and carry a hefty fine.

[code_duck]

Sega was responsible enough to not store passwords in plaintext. The email I received stated:

    We have identified that a subset of SEGA Pass members emails addresses, 
    dates of birth and encrypted passwords were obtained. To stress, 
    none of the passwords obtained were stored in plain text.

Of course, they could still have been hashed inadequately, such as with plain md5.

[thedigitalengel]

Hackers?

Cliched argument; but every time I see such a misuse, I get a little sadder.

[sukuriant]

Unfortunately, we may some day get to the point where the term "Hacker" has wholey lost its roots. This happens to many words in languages over the span of their existence.

Examples of this occurance include let (used to mean something similar to hinder), gay (used to [only] mean happy)

[phatbyte]

This is getting ridiculous, these guys need to be tracked down, these are no longer lame DoS attacks, this is theft.

Damn kids, they are alike.