/spandiv style="float:right;width:305px;display:inline;font-size:13px;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;line-height:16px;" img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/53492000/jpg/_53492882_hi012187687.jpg" width="304" height="171" alt="Sonic the hedgehog"span style="width:304px;"Sega is the latest games company to be hacked after attacks on Sony, Nintendo and others/span /div div class="story-feature related narrow"Related Stories/div p class="introduction" id="story_continues_1"Sega has told gamers that some of their personal information may have been stolen following an attack on its systems./p pE-mail addresses and dates of birth stored on the Sega Pass database were accessed by hackers./p pBut payment information, such as credit card numbers, remained safe as it was handled elsewhere, Sega said ./p pThe hacking group Lulz Security appeared to deny involvement, despite leading a wave of recent cyber attacks./ppIn an e-mail sent to Sega Pass users, the company wrote: "Over the last 24 hours we have identified that unauthorised entry was gained to our Sega Pass database. /p p"We immediately took the appropriate action to protect our consumers' data and isolate the location of the breach. We have launched an investigation into the extent of the breach of our public systems."/p pSega explained that it had reset all passwords and urged customers to change their log-on details on other services and websites where they used the same credentials./p pIt added that password details had not been stored in plain text, suggesting that they may have been secured by some kind of encryption./p pSega is the latest in a line of games companies to suffer hacking and denial of service attacks on their online services./p pa href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13663814" title="Nintendo hack story"Nintendo/a, a href="bc.co.uk/news/technology-13627482" title="PSN hack story"Sony/a and several multi-player gaming communities a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13777129" title="multiplayer gaming services hacked"have been hit in recent months/a./p pThe hacker group Lulz Security, which has been involved in a number of high profile attacks, showed some sympathy for Sega on its Twitter feed./p p"We want to help you destroy the hackers that attacked you. We love the Dreamcast, these people are going down," wrote LulzSec./ppThis article is from the a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk" title="Link to BBC News"BBC News website/a. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/P44qA7Lv21INkGpjfK8jHZxIonY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/P44qA7Lv21INkGpjfK8jHZxIonY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/P44qA7Lv21INkGpjfK8jHZxIonY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/P44qA7Lv21INkGpjfK8jHZxIonY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BbcNewsTechnologyFullFeed/~4/qndQQ_78COI" height="1" width="1"/