LulzSec offers to track down Sega's hackers

In a surprise offer Lulz Security, the hacker group which launched cyber attacks against other video game companies including Nintendo, has volunteered to track down and punish the hackers who broke into video game company Sega Holding's database.

According to media reports, Sega had reported that sensitive information on about 1.3 million customers had been compromised in a cyber attack.

LulzSec hs Tweeted, "We want to help you destroy the hackers that attacked you. We love the Dreamcast, these people are going down".
 
The offer has left analysts are wondering why the group which is responsible for the recent attacks against Eve Online, MineCraft, and Bethesda Softworks, is actually offering help against those responsible for activities similar to its own.

The Sega Pass website has a data base that includes customer names, dates of birth, e-mail addresses, and encrypted passwords.

A number of media outlets have been able to confirm the attack with officials from the Japanese company. The text of a letter that Sega reportedly sent to Sega Pass registered users on Friday night informing them of the breach was posted on the news site Playstation Lifestyle

Sega says in the letter that passwords were not stored in plain text, but rather encrypted, and that payment information was not involved in the incident.