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Atlus site violated, impregnated with Trojan photo

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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Jon2309's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/26/2009 10:05
Jon2309
After seeing this a while back, I immediately decided to load up the site to laugh at it with NoScript in full force.


Yeah, that didn't go quite to plan.
TheToiletDuck's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/26/2009 10:07
TheToiletDuck
Seems like an odd choice of videogame company to attack.
linuxguy's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/26/2009 10:08
linuxguy
haha trojans :D
linuxguy's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/26/2009 10:10
linuxguy
shit hit add comment too soon.
people that do that need to DIAF ,seriously why so much evil?
RonBurgandy2010's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/26/2009 10:40
RonBurgandy2010
No, they were infected with SPARTANS!



Also, lol computer STD.
Naim Master's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/26/2009 11:28
Naim Master
If they targeted Namco-Bandai instead :(
Nitex's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/26/2009 11:45
Nitex
I tried to go to it yesterday and it was offline, was wondering what was up!
Aurain's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/26/2009 13:12
Aurain
Atlus: I NEED UR HALP!
Gen Eric Gui's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/26/2009 13:12
Gen Eric Gui
The Reborn: The best security systems in the world can't stop a determined hacker unless you're the Federal Government.



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.
Vrynix's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/26/2009 13:40
Vrynix
I just don't get the reason why people do it at all. At least soccer hooligans have the excuse of "peer pressure" when they vandalize things.

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
Zippyduda's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/26/2009 13:53
Zippyduda
@ Vrynix

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.
Black Nexus's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/26/2009 13:59
Black Nexus
They hacked Atlus,how dare they.

let me at em, judgement shall be swift and brutal.
mr spooky's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/26/2009 14:55
mr spooky
Why not Nintendo instead of Atlus?
Mr Kite's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/26/2009 15:30
Mr Kite
cunts.
Kaalinn's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/26/2009 15:48
Kaalinn
So I thought about who'd have any reason (besides plain malevolence) to do this, because honestly.. what did Atlus ever do?

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.
Bizznet's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/26/2009 16:04
Bizznet
@ Reborn: "The are security solutions for a reason. Best practices exist for a reason. You get hacked for a reason."

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.
Kyousuke Nanbu's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/26/2009 17:33
Kyousuke Nanbu
@Reborn

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.
Johnny Justice's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/26/2009 18:01
Johnny Justice
But Trojans are meant to stop pregnancy.
Rabspat's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/26/2009 22:45
Rabspat
So that's where all that fucking shit came from! D:<
Chronic Logic's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2009 00:19
Chronic Logic
Was it good for you?
The Amazing Shenazin's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/29/2009 03:48
The Amazing Shenazin
probably some shithead /v/irgin
Dan CiTi's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/04/2009 11:36
Dan CiTi
Delicious Aigis
The Incredible Edible Egg's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/07/2009 02:00
The Incredible Edible Egg
good thing I accessed the page on my Wii. It took too long to type in the url so I missed the timeframe.
TurboKill's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/11/2009 11:07
TurboKill
Truly truly evil....Elite Punishment please. Torture til' death!








Via Paper Cuts. That'll teach em all.
KidKobun's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/11/2009 18:22
KidKobun
ITT: Fatlus JRPG lifers.
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