League of Legends  A monitor shows a live webcast of a match
being played in the League Championship Series for League of
Legends, a tournament for a PC-based video game, at Riot Studios
in Santa Monica. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times / July 25,
2013)    • Related   • Maps   • Santa Monica, CA, USA  Riot
Games became the latest video game developer to suffer a data
breach, the Santa Monica company disclosed Tuesday.  Real names,
user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords belonging to
"a portion" of North American players of League of Legends game
were "accessed," Riot co-founders Marc Merrill and Brandon Beck
said in an online note. Additionally, 120,000 transaction
records from 2011 that contained encrypted credit card numbers
were also "accessed," they said.  “Our investigation is ongoing
and we will take all necessary steps to protect players,” the
co-founders wrote.  PHOTOS: The 10 biggest tech gadget fails
The company did not say how the breach occurred and the note
offered few clues. The comp