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Second Life virtual disaster as users get hacked
Stan Beer
Monday, 11 September 2006 19:59
The site has been such a success that real life top shelf businesses have become involved setting up virtual offices from which they do real life business with users, selling their wares to Second Life users. It's the ultimate online reality game dressed up in a fantasy world setting.
Because of the business involvement, real life commercial transactions take place and those credit card details and personal details of users are kept on Linden Lab databases.
Unfortunately as many users of online services are increasingly finding out, their data sitting on another company's server can never be 100% guaranteed to be safe from the devious methods of experienced hackers. Such has been the case for Second Life users, who were told last week by Linden Lab that their names, address and sensitive data such as passwords and credit card details had been hacked into.
From reports of the incident, it is probably fortunate for the users that their most sensitive data, such as credit card payments and passwords are probably safe, as are their credit card details, which are housed on a separate database.
However, it must be disconcerting to know that your name and address has been stolen by criminal elements.
Linden Lab has issued an advisory to all users that they must request a new password. However, it does seem a little like locking the stable after the horse has bolted.
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