If you visited Atlus' official Web site before the weekend, be warned. It's possible that a filthy trojan virus found its way onto your PC, courtesy of some scumbags who hacked into the niche game publisher's site and embedded a nasty bit of computer rape.
Atlus has warned its fans that if they visited the site between 9:00AM PST and 2:30PM PST on Friday, they could be infected. The site was taken offline to prevent the spread of infection, and naturally Atlus has urged users to run a malware scan immediately.
"The faith and trust of our fans is of the utmost importance to us, a responsibility we don’t take lightly," announced the publisher.
Wow, online vandals just get classier and classier. To target Atlus of all companies is a new low, even among the societal rejects and dirtballs who think this sort of thing is fun. The very least they could have done was hack into Activision or something. Still wouldn't be a good thing, but at least go for the evil publishers.
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10:00 AM on 04.26.2009
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Yeah, that didn't go quite to plan.
people that do that need to DIAF ,seriously why so much evil?
Also, lol computer STD.
This was a fucking dick move. I can't imagine the depths of evil a person would have to sink to to pull this kind of shit on Atlus. All they fucking do is good things for the gamer community, and they get hacked. Classy, real classy.
Then again, maybe someone went "too far" (id est: chose the wrong option) with one of the girls in Persona and they wanted to get Atlus back for making the girls so stingy :o
Some people know as White Hackers do it to test the security/system/defence etc. or to make money from it. Black hackers do it for the fun of it and to cause as much havoc as possible. I didn't make those names up they're the real terms before I hear any racism shoutouts.
Shame this happened anyway.
let me at em, judgement shall be swift and brutal.
And really the only plausible thing I came up with is that it could be some religious fundamentalist that got pissed off by the portrayal of his religion or its figures in one of the SMT games.
I've always thought it surprising how little flak Atlus got from religious organizations, despite (for example) having (one of the best-written) portrayals of Lucifer as a likeable character.
That's like a rapist saying his victims were asking for it because of the way she was dressed.
Seriously though, this was a dick move. Fucking hackers.
You've obviously never dealt with a hacker that can get around those programs, you don't know what you're talking about so shut the fuck up and let the adults have their conversation.
And yea this suck but I have a hunch that it has nothing to do with Atlus themselves, some sites get hacked all the time.
Via Paper Cuts. That'll teach em all.
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