Sega's forum remains offline almost a month after its forums and other sites were hit by hacktivists. Hackers broke into Sega's systems and made off with user registration details, email addresses, birth dates and encrypted passwords of around 1.3 million users last month. No financial data was exposed by the hack, which was …

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Thursday 14th July 2011 10:10 GMT Matt Siddall

I guess they've figured it out

The only 100% safe forum is one that's not on the web...

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1. Thursday 14th July 2011 10:58 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  offline it is not safe either
  
  On an offline forum it is even easier to listen in to private conversation or nick the wallet of people.
  
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Thursday 14th July 2011 12:15 GMT Joe K

Numbskull

Sega aren't a "rival gaming firm", they haven't made a console since the Dreamcast you know.

Sega publish shitloads of games on Sony boxes, not something a "rival" tends to do.

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1. Thursday 14th July 2011 12:26 GMT CD001
  
  Not to mention the PC
  
  I got the email from Sega saying that their forums had been compromised ages ago but I couldn't for the life of me think of any Sega games I owned or why I would be signed up to a Sega forum... then I launched one of the Total War games and went "aaaah".
  
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