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Title: From TG Daily: NCSoft to pay more than $4 million over hacked accounts Post by: Trippy on April 29, 2006, 02:54:51 PM From TG Daily: Korean court orders NCSoft to pay more than $4 million over hacked game accounts (http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/04/28/lineage_orderedtopay_4million/)
Quote Korean court orders NCSoft to pay more than $4 million over hacked game accounts Humphrey Cheung April 28, 2006 21:23 Seoul (South Korea) - A Korean court has ordered NCSoft, the makers of the MMORPG Lineage and Lineage 2, to pay $500 per person to owners of hacked game accounts. Back in May 2004, 8,500 Lineage 2 accounts were hacked after NCSoft forgot to encrypt a database log file that contained usernames and passwords. The total payout is around $4,250,000. Lineage was originally released in 1998, and in its prime, garnered four million monthly subscribers, mostly in Korea and other Asian countries. Lineage 2 was released in the United States in 2004, but has faced intense competition from World of Warcraft, which now has more than six million subscribers. They don't quote a source and I haven't been able to find any confirmation of this story yet but here's some background on the suit from The Korea Times: Lineage Operator Facing Class Action Suit Over Stolen ID (http://search.hankooki.com/times/times_view.php?term=ncsoft++&path=hankooki3/times/lpage/200602/kt2006022317293610220.htm&media=kt) More Than 3,500 Gamers to Join Class Action Suit Against NCSoft (http://search.hankooki.com/times/times_view.php?term=ncsoft++&path=hankooki3/times/lpage/nation/200602/kt2006022819234411970.htm&media=kt) Title: Re: From TG Daily: NCSoft to pay more than $4 million over hacked accounts Post by: schild on April 29, 2006, 03:04:07 PM Normally I'd say it's undeserved. But forgetting to encrypt a database file is HUGE.
Title: Re: From TG Daily: NCSoft to pay more than $4 million over hacked accounts Post by: sinij on April 30, 2006, 09:29:22 AM This is one of the first precedents assigning 'value' to on-line accounts and in-game items.
Title: Re: From TG Daily: NCSoft to pay more than $4 million over hacked accounts Post by: Merusk on April 30, 2006, 05:32:02 PM This is one of the first precedents assigning 'value' to on-line accounts and in-game items. And here's another. http://www.brokentoys.org/2006/04/25/korean-government-to-weigh-in-on-virtual-item-sales/ |