Monday, September 11, 2006

Second Life Suffers Security Breach

A Reuters newswire article by Eric Auchard, via MSNBC, reports that:

Second Life, the fast-growing online site where hundreds of thousands of people play out fantasy lives online, has suffered a computer security breach that exposed the real-world personal data of its users.

Linden Lab, the San Francisco-based company behind the Second Life site, said in a letter to its 650,000 users this weekend that its customer database, including names, addresses, passwords and some credit card data, had been compromised.

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