Sega Hack Affected 1.3 Million Users

Sega on Monday confirmed that a recent hack of its system affected almost 1.3 million customers. Hackers who infiltrated the Sega Pass system last week gained access to 1,290,755 customer accounts, which included Sega Pass members' names, email addresses, dates of birth, and encrypted passwords.
"We express our sincerest apologies to our customers for the inconvenience and concern caused by this matter," the company said in a statement. "Sega Pass is the service used to provide information about our new products to registered members and does not hold any customer financial information."
Sega said it checked its other services and "can confirm there are no other verified incidents."
After the intrusion was detected, Sega took its Sega Pass service offline and "took emergency action to prevent further damage," the company said. "This action included immediately contacting all our registered SEGA Pass users. We are now fully investigating the cause of the incident." Sega promised that network security will be a "priority issue" going forward.
Hacker group LulzSec has been targeting a number of gaming companies, including Sony and Nintendo, but they denied involvement with the Sega intrusion and even offered up its assistance.
"@Sega - contact us. We want to help you destroy the hackers that attacked you. We love the Dreamcast, these people are going down," LulzSec tweeted on Friday.
LulzSec had similar sentiments earlier this month. "We love Nintendo and Sega, if anything we'd hack *for* them. If you're listening Nintendo/Sega, you, you uh... you want Sony hacked more?" the group said on June 6.
LulzSec said today that it is teaming with Anonymous to target government Web sites.