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Hackers, Extortion Threats Shut Down Game Site
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 01:37:01 GMT
Via eWeek: [snip] White Wolf Publishing Inc., a company responsible for some of the most popular role-playing game brands, has shut down operations after international hackers exploited a software flaw and stole user data that included user names, e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords. Following the breach, the company, based in Stone Mountain, Ga., said the hackers attempted to extort money by threatening to post the potentially sensitive user data on the Internet. [snip] http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1903020,00.asp - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Hackers, Extortion Threats Shut Down Game Site Fergie (Dec 16)
- Re: Hackers, Extortion Threats Shut Down Game Site Pierre Vandevenne (Dec 17)
- Re: Hackers, Extortion Threats Shut Down Game Site Dude VanWinkle (Dec 17)
- Re: Hackers, Extortion Threats Shut Down Game Site Pierre Vandevenne (Dec 17)