Second Life Passwords Compromised

Tuesday, Sep. 12 2006 | Author: J. Angelo Racoma

If you play Second Life Online, then your online identity may have just been compromised. A report from Contractor UK says a hacker was able to gain access certain parts of Linden Labs’ database of Second Life players, and this includes password information. Liden Labs is therefore advising residents to change passwords and to make sure the same is done for other accounts one owns, even those outside of SL.

Hundreds of thousands of internet security passwords are reluctantly being changed after a hacker snooped the personal details of over 660,000 people who regularly play Second Life(SL).

Makers of the worldâs fastest-growing online game admit they are unable to determine which accounts were breached, so are advising all 660,800 âresidentsâ to invent new passwords.

Linden Lab said the hacker gained access to customersâ names, addresses, passwords and some payment information, thanks to a security hole in third party-software used on SL servers.

Fortunately, Linden Labs says encrypted credit card data were not compromised.

The real trouble here is for those users who take online security lightly. Using the same passwords across different sites, for instance, is very risky. Once a malicious hacker gains access to any one site,he/she then can easily access your other accounts, potentially wreaking havoc on your online identity. It’s worse if your access to financial sites (online banking, PayPal, etc.) is also compromised.

Category: Security, Games

4 Responses for "Second Life Passwords Compromised"

albert Ii

September 12th, 2006 at 7:14 am
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What about accounts that aren’t used lately - last use about 3 months ago. Are these not compremiseded since it’s not a regular used one?

Or should i alse reconnect to change the password of an account i’dd prolly never use again or might use in the unforseen but far atm future ( my machine is too slow for the game)
Trevor

October 4th, 2006 at 11:38 am
2

second life steals money by not giving accounts back i know many people that called the number me also but number does not exist they dont give a reply the password loss wass good buisiness for them becaus all those accounts contain money and most people wouldnt say anithing about it but let there be a 10000 persons who startet a new acount and let them only have a 1000L thats for lindenlab a 33800 dollars so who says that it were hackers and it was not linden lab himself!!!! its for them easy money and they already proven themself that they steal my account and friends of mine in sl
Dataracks

October 29th, 2006 at 9:36 am
3

Online identity theft in games? WTF
(SL) Troy Childs

January 17th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
4

Reply to albert Ii.
What they Did was disabled ALL accounts and people had to answer security quistions to reset up there password. then there accounts re enabled.

Reply to Dataracks.
Its not identity theft in games. the game is like other games that charge montly payment plans. like World OF War Craft. If a hacker gets in they can get your real life info and then use real identity theft.

Reply to Trevor.
You Just Dont know what your really saying. All games make changes how they give money. yeah its too bad even i a SL player i notice Linden Money vaule goes up like gas prices. such as if you wanted buy like 1,000L for like $4.00 last i looked. it maybe diffrent now. the people that get 1k at sign up Today is there choose. if they sign up with a Prem Account and then they ger a free weekly Allowance for prem accounts. like if you only pay for a simple US$9.95\Per Month. ever week you get 500L.
So really there giving Linden Wise then stealing. there not really doing anything but setting crappy fees on things. like not long ago a price for a Sim Island went up over 200 a month. which is BS. But its there company and they can run it whatever they want. and if you having so much issues with SL you ethier dont know how to play of you keep breaking the rules if your not allowed in your account.