2010-03-24, 02:23 PM
Quote:As reader Sarah put it:
“...Three months ago people began losing access to their accounts in Nexon's largest game, MapleStory.They would log on to find that their PIN had been changed (a secondary form of weak security, there are easily available PIN crackers by searching google) or that their characters were stripped of all items, money and NX. It seemed to start small; some of the fan-sites would see threads about being "hacked" which were typically dismissed by the player-base as the account owners having downloaded a keylogger or having lost their accounts to social engineering. After a while, it grew to an unusually large number of people claiming to have lost their accounts. ...
Our personal and virtual identities are at risk every second of every day and Nexon is doing nothing to protect us. They are far more concerned about protecting their reputation (insisting there was no database breach and that they've done nothing wrong) and continuing to make money, which is why it's so important that this be brought to light of the public. Those of us who are working day and night to try and get answers and to protect ourselves are no loud enough to make anyone hear.”
She must be feeling pretty proud of herself right about now.