Stole data about 1.3 million clients from Sega

The Japanese developer of video games the Sega company announced on Sunday that information belonging to 1.3 million clients was stolen from its database as a result of the hacker attack.

It is said in the statement of Sega that names, dates of birth, the e-mail addresses and the ciphered passwords of net surfers of Sega Pass online were compromised. Data on payments, such as credit card numbers, remained in security. The Sega Pass online network is closed since the end of last week.

The press secretary of Sega Yoko Nagasava (Yoko Nagasawa) on behalf of the company apologized for causing troubles to clients. The company conducts works on security strengthening, Yoko Nagasava told and added that is still not clear when the company restarts Sega Pass online.

Attack on division of Sega is Sega Sammy Holdings, the software maker of games, like Sonic Hedgehog and also game machines, followed other considerable invasions. Earlier Citigroup underwent the attacks, having reported violation more than 360 thousand accounts of users in May and also the International Monetary Fund.

Drama events of a final round of invasions into data of the producer of video games turn pale in comparison with those that tested Sony after two highly professional attacks in April. These invasions led to theft of accounts of more than 100 million clients that does them the largest in the history of cracking of the data which are not falling within the scope of the industry of finance. They also revealed a large number of holes in security systems of Sony media empire that led to frequent attacks on the systems of Sony, to betrayal of confidence in the company and made her a source of frequent jokes among experts in security.

Though FBI, most likely, will investigate attack on Sega, his agents in search of the truth can be competitors to members of the hacker Lulz Security group: the group of hackers standing behind cyber attacks against other companies of video games, including Nintendo, unexpectedly suggested to track down and punish hackers who cracked the database of Sega company.

In the offer of the help of Sega Lulz Security hinted that her leaders consider themselves as a part of small, but very loyal user group which still play on the outdate Dreamcast console. "Sega - contact us, - Lulz Security stated. - We want to help you to destroy hackers who attacked you. We love Dreamcast, these people will be defeated".

Sega was the largest producer of video game consoles in the 1990s, but left the market in 2001 in response to extremely low sales of the Dreamcast system which began to be on sale in 1998. The new products developed by Sony and Nintendo got the lost positions of Dreamcast. Now Sega is engaged in development of video games for systems created by other companies.