“The database accessed includes customer account information, including Second Life account names, real-life name and contact information in unencrypted form. Account passwords and payment information (consisting of credit card numbers and Paypal transaction IDs) are stored in this same database in encrypted form.”

Forget the CC issue, I’m wondering when we’ll hear about the first case of blackmail. And what will that case be? I imagine there are more than a few people out there who’d pay money not to have their virtual activities made public.

In meiner Mailbox hat mich heute morgen eine Mail von Linden Labs empfangen, die als Betreiber von Second Life mitteilen, dass die Datenbank mit den User-Accounts gehackt worden ist. Im Blog sind dazu auch Infos zu finden. Außerdem wird auch auf der S…

It’s a tough situation, but it’s an interesting one I think.

From the mouth of slashdot user “mrdudy”:

I’m really impressed by the way Linden Lab has been handling this issue.
Though the exploit seems to be not their fault, they are still humbly
taking the blame. In addition, as soon as they figured the extent of the
hack, they reported it to the users, and immediately changed all the
account passwords in their systems. They didn’t really need to do this,
ie, they could have just issued a warning, but its shows that they care
about the user’s security more than their public image (no doubt this
password change will negatively affect the community for weeks to months).

The way I see it, every one is going to be hacked. Its a fact. I just
praise the way Linden Lab has handled the situation thus so far.