Lost amidst all the news from AGC: Slashdot favorite and Wired darling Second Life was hacked last week, resulting in the compromise of customer names and addresses, as well as encrypted passwords and credit card information. Something to, uh, keep in mind if you’ve given them your credit card information.

It’s a PR nightmare – Second Life is forcing everyone to choose new passwords, which means the entire population will know about it, which is undoubtedly going to cause a wave of no-confidence cancellations. It also could end up proving financially disastrous – lawsuits are likely, inevitable if the credit card information ends up decrypted.