Atlus.com Hacked

Logan Westbrook

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Atlus.com Hacked


Atlus's official website came under attack yesterday, prompting concerns that visitors may have come into contact with malware.

Atlus, the company responsible for surgery simulator Trauma Center and the critically acclaimed Persona 4 have come under attack by hackers. According to Atlus, their official site was attacked by a 'third-party entity' and a trojan virus was embedded on the system.

The site is still down and Atlus are concerned that users might have come into contact with the virus if they visited the site between 9am to 2.30pm PST yesterday.

Atlus are imploring users to run malware removal software if they believe themselves to be affected by the virus, which sounds like good advice if you think you've been affected or not. Atlus apologized to fans, saying "the faith and trust of our fans is of the utmost importance to us, a responsibility we don't take lightly."

Source: Joystiq [http://www.joystiq.com/2009/04/25/atlus-com-hacked-trojan-may-have-spread-to-visitors-computers/]



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Onyx Oblivion

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Well, thanks god they can still make games and it was just their website that was vandalized by hackers. That's terrible news, though. Who would want to hack them, anyway?
 

VoltySquirrel

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TsunamiWombat said:
Someone who hates JRPG's I guess.

...Where was Yahtzee last night?
I read his blog, it said something about, "fixing a wrong that he should of taken care of a long time ago..." What the hell does that mean?
 

Lios

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ITHA CONTHPIWATHY!




...but really, who'd want to take down Atlus of all places? I mean they're hardly that popular. It was probably just some hacker testing to see whether gaming corporations could be hacked.
 

Ghost

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what game is that in the picture? and i thought it would have been impossible to imbed a virus into a website...
 

Susan Arendt

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SICK0_ZER0 said:
what game is that in the picture? and i thought it would have been impossible to imbed a virus into a website...
That'd be Persona 3, if I'm not mistaken.
 

Random Argument Man

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Who would hack the site indeed?

RAM's list of suspect:

-Atlus hater
-Pissed Ogre Battle fan. (Finding a cheap copy of those games is hard).
-Hacker searching for fame.
 

heliosa

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Random argument man said:
Who would hack the site indeed?

RAM's list of suspect:

-Atlus hater
-Pissed Ogre Battle fan. (Finding a cheap copy of those games is hard).
-Hacker searching for fame.
That was a good game. Luckily I have a copy (And a game boy)
 

Random Argument Man

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heliosa said:
Random argument man said:
Who would hack the site indeed?

RAM's list of suspect:

-Atlus hater
-Pissed Ogre Battle fan. (Finding a cheap copy of those games is hard).
-Hacker searching for fame.
That was a good game. Luckily I have a copy (And a game boy)
Finding a copy of Tactic Ogre: Let us cling together on the playstation is A. Very fucking hard B. Minimum cost is 80$ C. Big chance the game is damaged.

My brother was an idiot and gave my copy of Ogre battle 64 away. I later found out that I could have sold it for 200$...
 

G1eet

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Onyx Oblivion said:
Well, thanks god they can still make games and it was just their website that was vandalized by hackers. That's terrible news, though. Who would want to hack them, anyway?
Aggravated Chinese nationals. No joke.

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-04/hackers-china-syndrome
 

IrrelevantTangent

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VoltySquirrel said:
TsunamiWombat said:
Someone who hates JRPG's I guess.

...Where was Yahtzee last night?
I read his blog, it said something about, "fixing a wrong that he should of taken care of a long time ago..." What the hell does that mean?
But a high-profile guy with Yahtzee wouldn't stoop to levels like this, right?

Right?

RIGHT?!?!?
 

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NoMoreSanity said:
The_Oracle said:
VoltySquirrel said:
TsunamiWombat said:
Someone who hates JRPG's I guess.

...Where was Yahtzee last night?
I read his blog, it said something about, "fixing a wrong that he should of taken care of a long time ago..." What the hell does that mean?
But a high-profile guy with Yahtzee wouldn't stoop to levels like this, right?

Right?

RIGHT?!?!?
Don't tell the truth, nothing happened between Yahtzee and that website!
Quick! Everyone, exit the thread! DENIABLITY!