Nexon Korea Security Breach

Source: http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Deta...1126000052

Nexon says data of MapleStory's overseas members safe

Nexon Korea Corp. said Saturday that no data of MapleStory overseas members was leaked in the recent security breach that compromised private details of 13.2 million Korean online game players.

The massive private data leakage hit gamers of the internationally popular online game earlier this week, affecting nearly three quarters of the 18 million MapleStory users in South Korea.

"We operate separate servers in each country," said a Nexon spokesman. "Only Korean users' information was affected."

Nexon discovered on Thursday that millions of user IDs, players' names, passwords and residential registration numbers on MapleStory was leaked from its servers to unidentified hackers.

Passwords and residential registration numbers, an equivalent of social security numbers in the United States, were encrypted, but affected users were still advised to change their passcodes on other Web sites, the company added.

Nexon reported the case to the Korea Communications Commission, the telecommunications regulator, the following day and requested a police investigation.

The security breach comes weeks before the planned initial public offering of the unlisted company's Japan affiliate. Media reports said Nexon aims to raise $1.3 billion in its initial public offering in Tokyo scheduled on Dec. 6.

Nexon, which made KartRider and MapleStory, two globally endeared games, especially among teenagers, is one of the two leading online game developers in South Korea, along with NCsoft Corp.

The recent hacking is the second largest online security breach in the country's history. In August, private details of 35 million subscribers of the Nate search engine and Cyworld social networking Web site were leaked. (Yonhap News)

Late to the party.
Already posted (twice actually) this morning.
http://www.southperry.net/showthread.php?t=51060

Late to the party.
Already posted (twice actually) this morning.
http://www.southperry.net/showthread.php?t=51060

In his/her defense, this is a news article in the current events section, but yeah been posted twice o_o

surprise surprise

There is a special webpage created to see if your info has been leaked. Mine is leaked.

There is a special webpage created to see if your info has been leaked. Mine is leaked.

;~; change asap

"Nexon discovered on Thursday that millions of user IDs, players' names, passwords and residential registration numbers on MapleStory was leaked from its servers to unidentified hackers."
Passwords in plaintext? It doesn't specify...

"Nexon discovered on Thursday that millions of user IDs, players' names, passwords and residential registration numbers on MapleStory was leaked from its servers to unidentified hackers."
Passwords in plaintext? It doesn't specify...

Next sentence.

"Passwords and residential registration numbers, an equivalent of social security numbers in the United States, were encrypted, but affected users were still advised to change their passcodes on other Web sites, the company added."

Next sentence.

"Passwords and residential registration numbers, an equivalent of social security numbers in the United States, were encrypted, but affected users were still advised to change their passcodes on other Web sites, the company added."

Well, at least theres that. Now the only question is, what encryption were they using. Doesn't matter if it was encrypted if it was done in some last century obsolete hashing.

There is a special webpage created to see if your info has been leaked. Mine is leaked.

In spadow i trust

This means i'm safe?

In spadow i trust
-snip-
This means i'm safe?

Your safe.

There is a special webpage created to see if your info has been leaked. Mine is leaked.

O: SPADOW! We need your YouTube videos!

Some idiot on Basil posted an entire list of KSSNs in a thread.

O: SPADOW! We need your YouTube videos!

Some idiot on Basil posted an entire list of KSSNs in a thread.

lol don't think those Korean people will like having their social security numbers known to the world... This is just like the time they posted a list of everyone's user IDs on basil too... Fools.

O: SPADOW! We need your YouTube videos!

Some idiot on Basil posted an entire list of KSSNs in a thread.

What?

O: SPADOW! We need your YouTube videos!

Some idiot on Basil posted an entire list of KSSNs in a thread.

Why cant I, hit my head on all these desks?

Woo hoo, down with Maplestory.

I mean, sorry to all the poor lost souls.