13M Nexon User Accounts Compromised In MapleStory Breach

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Seoul-based online game publisher Nexon has confirmed that millions of Korean user accounts for its MapleStory online game have been compromised as part of a security breach. However, the company was quick to stress that the breach does not affect user accounts in countries outside of Korea. The breach was discovered last week, and has affected around three quarters of the 18 million MapleStory users in South Korea. User IDs, users' real names, passwords and ...

Wonder who the smart kid(s) were to have been able to achieve the hacking of 13 million accounts.. And how Nexon Korea tends to aid these people with all their personal information leaked.

Wow. Dont Korean users have to provide thier version of a SS# to log into the game? If this is true the hackers got some really valuable information...

I assume execution is coming for those people that did this.

Wow. Dont Korean users have to provide thier version of a SS# to log into the game? If this is true the hackers got some really valuable information...

Nah, its just a pin like in GMS, the 2nd part of KSSN was use for going to storage, deleting char, but not anymore, all of those use the pin.

Nah, its just a pin like in GMS, the 2nd part of KSSN was use for going to storage, deleting char, but not anymore, all of those use the pin.

They still have to provide their KSSN to sign up. And that's valuable.

right now, the only compensation is
a corgi pup
45 permanent vip teleport rocks
25 30 day item locks
corgi pup pet equip


not enough

At least they compensate with item locks. The only real thing they need to compensate with at every turn.

At least they compensate with item locks. The only real thing they need to compensate with at every turn.

thousands of cubes and 2x for several months

I assume execution is coming for those people that did this.

Ouch. Are they that bad with verdicts? Not like they killed anyone.