Yet another security breach!

pctech · Jun 16, 2011, 20:07:50

Hmmm, our favourite telecoms monopoly?

Niall · Jun 18, 2011, 21:20:50

I had an email this morning from Sega saying they've been hacked too, and had their passwords, etc accessed.

Gary · Jun 19, 2011, 08:10:30

Quote from: Niall on Jun 18, 2011, 21:20:50
I had an email this morning from Sega saying they've been hacked too, and had their passwords, etc accessed.

Saw that on El Reg...LulzSec I believe

Technical Ben · Jun 19, 2011, 08:54:15

Thankfully with Minecraft it was only a Denial Of Service attack. No data compromised. More a failed attempt, or an attempt to break things.

Gary · Jun 19, 2011, 09:29:38

Quote from: Technical Ben on Jun 19, 2011, 08:54:15
Thankfully with Minecraft it was only a Denial Of Service attack. No data compromised. More a failed attempt, or an attempt to break things.

Think it was just to break things they seem to like doing that, they do just do it for the Lulz it will either die out as the crackers get bored or we will end up with draconian laws for internet usage because of these idiots.

pctech · Jun 20, 2011, 18:27:09

Security consultencies and DDOS mitigation firms such as Gigenet and Prolexic must be raking it in at the moment.

Niall · Jun 20, 2011, 19:19:35

The funny thing is that Steam was hacked and went down as we've mention here, but they are still yet to admit it.

pctech · Jun 20, 2011, 19:25:37

You said in your earlier post you reckoned it had either been taken down or got attacked but it would still be down if attacked.

I reckon it was a connectivity outage although of course Valve maybe afraid to admit it.

Niall · Jun 20, 2011, 19:29:33

There have been a lot of posts deleted on the steam forums by moderators too. I was looking around last night and I found more posts about them deleting threads than I did threads. One was saying that the lulz bunch knocked them off the net with a ddos attack, then wandered off to do something else, basically. Hard to know the truth as ever with Valve, they refuse to admit to anything. For all we know, all our accounts have been compromised and they haven't let us know. Incidentally there were a few posts last night saying peoples steam accounts had been hijacked and they hadn't replied to any of those dodgy emails, or replied to the PMs from random strangers asking for info. That being said you can't really take the word of anyone on the steam forums as it's generally populated by morons

Technical Ben · Jun 20, 2011, 21:40:58

Quote from: Niall on Jun 20, 2011, 19:19:35
The funny thing is that Steam was hacked and went down as we've mention here, but they are still yet to admit it.

Hack? They get service outages at times. I thought it was a engineer to blame, not a hack.

Niall · Jun 20, 2011, 23:21:08

Strange that their entire network went down unannounced then, plus they didn't confirm or deny anything, or update anyone, or offer an explanation of what happened. Normally they do things like that with advance notice and clearly advertise it on their forums. There was no warning at all, and with all the backups they have, how can the entire network go down across the globe at once?

pctech · Jun 21, 2011, 13:59:40

Just run a netstat with Steam loaded to see what connections it makes.

Looks like Level 3 (which I seem to recall they use for Content Delivery Network edge caching so that the games download quicker) but there is also a connection to Qwest communications which their site also resolves to which probably means its their main ISP)

So it could have been a problem with Qwest rather than the Steam network itself.

Niall · Jun 21, 2011, 14:34:52

Dunno. As long as I can get the cr*p kicked out of me in Supreme commander I'm happy

Technical Ben · Jun 21, 2011, 18:34:46

Great game that (and the original 3 or 4 versions

).
I got 6 little indie games for £6.50, so I'm well chuffed with Steam right now.

Niall · Jun 24, 2011, 13:14:41

I've had two email from bioware today stating (and this is odd, I think) that their 10 year old neverwinter nights server has been hacked and details accessed are name, address, phone number, cd keys username, account details, encrypted passwords but not social security numbers.

They also provide a link to reset your password. Now I'm wondering if the email server has been hacked and this is what we are seeing here. Why would you email people telling the their equipment is 10 years out of date? What on earth is there a mention of social security numbers for when they aren't used to create any fo of gaming account.

I'm skeptical that this is an attack at all, and just a scam.

pctech · Jun 24, 2011, 13:20:34

Looks like they scammers are making use of the e-mail addresses they've nicked.

esh · Sep 17, 2011, 11:16:50

"Sony is preparing to ban gamers from the PlayStation Network unless they waive the right to collectively sue it over future security breaches. The firm has amended PSN's terms and conditions and users have to agree to them next time they log in. The move comes months after a string of hacking attacks compromised over 100 million accounts of the PlayStation Network subscribers. It is, however, possible to opt out of the agreement within the next 30 days. Gamers will now have to try to resolve any legal issues with an arbitrator picked by Sony, before being able to file a lawsuit."

Source: www.osnews.com

Technical Ben · Sep 17, 2011, 17:16:44

And they say legalised slavery is dead.

[edit]
Totally relevant. The same applies, just replace MS with Sony.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2103551/xbox-live-user-claims-microsoft-owes-usd500bn

pctech · Sep 17, 2011, 20:48:44

Wouldn't such a clause be illegal under UK law owing to the DPA.