At publisher Trion Worlds, well-known mmog Rift, is the database being hacked when the account information of players is stored. In addition, naw-data is captured. Credit card data are only partially stolen.
Trion Worlds has customers by e-mail to be notified of a database hack. The publisher claims that ‘the database in question contains information about user names, encrypted passwords, dates of birth, e-mail addresses, billing and the first and last four digits of the credit card of customers, plus the expiry date of the card.” Trion World allows that there is no evidence that the theft of the full credit card numbers captured, nor burglars, the numbers could use.
Trion has already taken steps to make the servers more secure. Result is that the players a new password to choose. The intrusion has no impact on the play of the games of Trion. Players of mmog Rift, the most popular game from the publisher, you have access to the game once they get a new password set. Trion gives everyone even three days extra time to the incident, to compensate. There is also a faq, in which questions about the break-in to be answered.
Trailer for the 1.5 update of Rift