The details of 13.2 million Korean players of the mmorpg MapleStory are hackers captured. These include passwords and social security numbers. The data of foreign players would be safe.
The hack was Thursday, was discovered by Nexon Korea Corp., the company behind MapleStory. After a survey revealed that the account for almost three quarters of the 18 million players have been affected. MapleStory is a very popular game in South Korea and also in the rest of the world has the players. The sidescrolling rpg is free, although for certain items should be paid for.
There would be no financial or banking information in the hands of the hackers. Also, passwords and social security numbers, stored in encrypted form. Players was nevertheless advised their password to be changed. Nexon stressed compared to the Korea Herald that the data of non-Koreans are not compromised, because the company has servers in those respective countries.
In the investigation of the hack working Nexon together with the Korean police and the Korea Communications Commission. Nexon is also the company behind KartRider, another popular game. The hack comes at a for the company inopportune time: Nexon is going in a few weeks with his Japanese branch to the stock exchange. The hack should be some numbers regarding the at-one-after-the largest in the history of South Korea. In August, information of 35 million Koreans captured during a hack of service provider SK Communications. That attack was claimed to be from China from.