The Silent Hill hackers

Konami, the Japanese games developer responsible for such genre defining classics as Metal Gear Solid and Silent Hill, has confirmed that tens of thousands of customer accounts have been put at risk due to a breach of the Konami ID portal site. During a period between the 13th June and 7th July, hackers made numerous unauthorised logins. Indeed, during this period it has been suggested that as many as 4 million account hacking attempts were executed. Konami warns that a total of 35,252 customer accounts were hijacked with the attackers having access to personal data including dates of birth, telephone numbers and street addresses as well as passwords of course.