SEGA Website Intrusion Update - Hacked After Security Update, 1.3M Users Impacted

Wow, how embarrassing! SEGA has stated that the hacker intrusion into their SEGA Pass system, was after a post-PSN hack security update. I guess there will be a lot of bowing on the part of SEGA as they apologize for not only knowing a hack attempt was coming but then fumbling their own security update and getting hacked anyway. How low can one bow without bending their knees I wonder?

The intrusion is said to have exposed some 1.3 million users to data theft. Data stolen includes names, birth dates, email and encrypted password (which is why I never use my real email or the same password more than twice).

Now, SEGA is by no means alone in their hacking woes, we all know about the intrusion that took down the Playstation Network for around a month. You might not also know about other hacker intrusions of late including Citicorp, the IMF and other game companies like Codemasters.

But as the latest in a series of attacks that the industry has known about for some time now, how could SEGA still fail to secure their site? I mean seriously, I even stated in the original series of PSN stuff that it would be a massive embarrassment if say, XBLA were later hacked when they should have been scrambling to fight against it as soon as word one was uttered by Sony.

Well apparently SEGA was on the ball and did a security update of their system. They then stumbled off the ball, hit their head on a golden ring lying on the floor and were knocked unconscious when the hackers showed up...who then seemingly, just walked off with 1.3 million user accounts.

Poor form SEGA! Poor form indeed!