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Virtual World Second Life Suffers Data Breach via Hackers

Posted on Sep 9, 2006 by Tom Fragala

Second Life is an online 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents via the Internet. Linden Labs issued this Second Life Security Bulletin:

Linden Lab reported today that it is notifying its community of a database breach, which potentially exposed customer data including the unencrypted names and addresses, and the encrypted passwords and encrypted payment information of all Second Life users. Unencrypted credit card information, which is stored on a separate database, was not compromised.