Yahoo Breach and Linden Lab Security

[Bolt Breen]

With the recent enormous data breach of Yahoo users information (over 500,000 users affected) and many other data breaches (Sony, DNC, Ashley-Madison), how secure is our data with Linden Labs? 

Our passwords to our SL accounts allow hackers access to actual cash. Linden Labs has our credit card information and personal information on file. How do we know Linden Labs won't be the next big data breach with not only the privacy of SL members, but the financial assets of SL users at stake? 

Does anyone at Linden Labs have an answer about what they are doing to ensure the protection of our private information?

 

EDIT: That is 500 Million users not 500,000! Thanks Pam.

[Pamela Galli]

It was half a billion not half a million.

[Bolt Breen]

You are correct! Half BILLION!

[wherorangi]

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Bolt Breen wrote:

 

Does anyone at Linden Labs have an answer about what they are doing to ensure the protection of our private information?

 

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if you are after specifics then LL have never or will ever say anything specific about their security systems and processes

most we ever get is the standard response that every online host gives: We do our best to ...

[Rhys Goode]

fwiw.....

I've had a dedicated email account for SL, over nine years. Never gotten *any* spam.

[JohnyGlide]

from what was said many years ago after the 2006 incident here,   they moved the service to behind a private vpn type setup,  the database is not exposed to the internet in anyway.    LL also run's their own private fiber ring,  so they have quite a few things setup properly,  the industry tends ot ingore them though    industry could take a lesson from the lab.

[Callum Meriman]

Having OpenID for logins to this forum and knowing that they are hashing and salting the password and not storing it accessable is a comfort for me. No service is unhackable - I would love to have a Second Factor - but it's ok.

[Perrie Juran]

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Technical_overview_of_Second_Life_security

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Security_issues