Who Hacked Sega? LulzSec Wants to Know

"Hi," begins an innocent-seeming note on Sega's online network homepage. "SEGA Pass is going through and through some improvements so is presently unavailable for inexperienced members to join or existing members to modify their details including resetting passwords."

All of which means: yep, they're calm down down this morn, June 20th, after hackers reportedly abroach into Sega's customer database last week and accessed birth dates, email addresses, and encrypted passwords. Sega acknowledged the offend yesterday, admitting the sensitive information of nearly 1.3 million customers had been compromised.

(More on PCWorld: Reports: Sega Customer Database Hacked)

As was common—or what's get usual per the rash of recent chop attacks against various companies—extra-delicate business customer data like mention card numbers game wasn't grazed. So sayeth Sega, anyway.

Sega at first contacted customers late last week with an email noting the company's online network had been taken offline Thursday, June 16th. Sega said it "immediately took the appropriate action to protect…consumers' data and sequester the location of the violate," adding that it had "launched an investigation into the extent of the breach."

Another bit of intriguing information: the assault happening Sega's database occurred after it claimed to have put through new security measures in place following the a great deal broader and concave middle-Apr attempt on Sony's PlayStation Network. In an interview with Gameindustry.game (via IBT) last calendar month, Sega Westward Chief executive officer Mike Hayes claimed the attack happening Sony had been "an fascinating rouse up scream" for the company, and that afterward making changes to its security system, Hayes believed Sega's security was "pretty solid."

Who hacked Sega? No one (salve perhaps Sega, per its investigation) knows. Nary one's publicly claimed credit. As a matter of fact notorious hack group LulzSec—responsible for a spate of Recent attacks on organizations ranging from PBS to Sony to the CIA—acted as surprised as anyone, tweeting on Friday: "@Sega – contact us. We want to service you destruct the hackers that attacked you. We love the Dreamcast, these people are going down."

But could that all just be LulzSec posturing? Toying with Sega and the rest of America? Did they actually do it? Can you trust a condemnable constitution (or—okay—ego-styled disorganization) to embody truthful when information technology's one of the most brazen hacktivist cyber-perps?

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