Fantasy site Second Life exposes user data
Second Life, the fast-growing online site where hundreds of thousands of people play out fantasy lives online, has suffered a computer security breach that exposed the real-world personal data of its users.
Linden Lab, the San Francisco-based company behind the Second Life site, said in a letter to its 650,000 users this weekend that its customer database, including names, addresses, passwords and some credit card data, had been compromised.
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Actually it iwasn´t Second Life that exposed users data, but a third-party viewer called Emerald.
As an open source plataform, Second Life allows its users to develope its own viewer to login in-world. It means that you are able to login into Second life using a viewer (software) developed by yourself.
Some of these developers offers their viewer (softwares) to other user. It was one of these softwares that exposed users data.