SL intruder alert, password database possibly compromised Sep 6
Perhaps old news for active residents, but for those who are more passive like what I’ve become since July 1, the following urgent security announcement describing how the database with user passwords may have been compromised was a surprise during login this morning:
I found the process to be excruciatingly slow. Are too many people trying to change their passwords at one time and Linden Labs is having difficulty scaling? Say it isn’t so.
Detailed investigation over the last two days confirmed that some of the unencrypted customer information stored in the database was compromised, potentially including Second Life account names, real life names and contact information, along with encrypted account passwords.
No credit card information is stored on the database in question, and that information has not been compromised.
Hopefully nothing evil happens with whatever information was compromised.
September 8th, 2006 • 
TD Goodliffe • 
