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This blog is no longer updated.
Since I own the domain name for a couple more years, and the hosting was paid-in-advance, it's still here. But I've moved on to Hawaii, and no longer have the need to publish all the sorts of neat stuff that made up the contents of this website.
If you've linked to me, you are invited to unlink, as your readers will no longer be presented with new content. Thanks, Steve
MSN Korea hacked for days.
Saturday, June 04, 2005 : Stephen D. Carroll, rokus.net
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MSNBC [link] reports that MSN Korea had a password sniffer installed over Memorial Day weekend, apparently collecting userids and passwords. But, were the hackers looking for bank accounts, email, or identities to steal? Of course not, they're swiping online games usernames:
The chronology suggests the hackers could have harvested stolen passwords from visitors to the MSN site for up to three days. But their target — passwords to game accounts — lessened the significance of the break-in since the hacker software appeared not to collect any network or banking passwords.
The Lineage game and its successor boast more than 4 million subscribers, mostly in Asia, who pay about $15 each month, said Mike Crouch, a spokesman for the U.S. subsidiary of South Korea-based NCSoft Corp. Crouch said he was unaware of any significant increase in complaints by subscribers about stolen passwords tied to the Microsoft break-in. Well, that ought to tell you something about the demographics of the thieves. On the other hand, swiping an account worth $180/year, reselling it for 20 cents on the dollar is cheap enough to fly under the radar.
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