Veteran British computer games designer Codemasters™, which made its name with budget games for the old Sinclair ZX Spectrum, is the latest software firm to have its security cracked. It admits that hackers managed to take the personal details of thousands of its users, including names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, passwords, IP addresses, XBox gamer tags and biographies. (Click the title link for Codemasters™ announcement.) The two big questions are: 1) Why do video games makers collect so much data about us? and 2) Why do we give it to them? Clearly the UK Data Protection Act (1998) isn't enough to insure our personal details are safe. CLICK for the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO); N.B. the tick box at the top of ICO's page "I accept cookies from this site".
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Codemasters™ Cracked
Veteran British computer games designer Codemasters™, which made its name with budget games for the old Sinclair ZX Spectrum, is the latest software firm to have its security cracked. It admits that hackers managed to take the personal details of thousands of its users, including names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, passwords, IP addresses, XBox gamer tags and biographies. (Click the title link for Codemasters™ announcement.) The two big questions are: 1) Why do video games makers collect so much data about us? and 2) Why do we give it to them? Clearly the UK Data Protection Act (1998) isn't enough to insure our personal details are safe. CLICK for the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO); N.B. the tick box at the top of ICO's page "I accept cookies from this site".
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