Playstation Network hacked - User data stolen

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2011-04-26 06:56pm

Those with a PS3 know that for the past week PSN's been down. Sony only recently elects to tell everyone that the hackers have stolen user data, possible credit card information, belonging to 77 million PSN users. Nice communication there, Sony.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/ ... me=topNews

Thankfully I've never put CC info on my account but this is still ridiculous.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2011-04-27 09:04am

Yeah, the CC I used on my PSN the one time I used it is long closed. Still, the fact that they're been so hardcore standoffish about it is troubling at the very least. This is really just supercharging my "Ignore Sony products and things made for sony products-o-tron"

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2011-04-27 09:25am

http://media.photobucket.com/image/rece ... puters.gif

Those of you who are old enough will know where this came from.

Collossus · Post by **Collossus** » 2011-04-27 11:26am

Hehe Il admit it made me chuckle... I have a buddy on both PSN and XBL and boy does he trash XBL no matter what... even while this was going on he was complaining about XBL cost, Netflix only on gold, etc. also he is only 1 of 2 people I know that even are on PSN let alone own a PS3.

Magellan · Post by **Magellan** » 2011-04-27 01:46pm

Collossus wrote:Hehe Il admit it made me chuckle... I have a buddy on both PSN and XBL and boy does he trash XBL no matter what... even while this was going on he was complaining about XBL cost, Netflix only on gold, etc. also he is only 1 of 2 people I know that even are on PSN let alone own a PS3.

This has nothing to do with console quality.

I get that these guys had beef with Sony, but this is taking a bit too far. Instead of attacking them, they're kind of just ruining it for everyone.

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2011-04-27 07:37pm

Haha I got an email just now from Sony telling me my account information was compromised. I forgot I even had an account, I must have set it up on one of my cousins' PS3s at some point. I borrowed a few of them…

Edward Yee · Post by **Edward Yee** » 2011-04-27 09:51pm

The main thing I can see Sony as having done wrong here was not immediately putting out the word of the POSSIBILITY of users' personal information being compromised, instead of waiting to mention that until it was confirmed that it had happened.

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2011-04-28 11:08pm

PSN database with 2.2 million credit card details up for sale?

Korgeta · Post by **Korgeta** » 2011-04-30 05:24pm

aerius wrote:http://media.photobucket.com/image/rece ... puters.gif

Those of you who are old enough will know where this came from.

I'm just waiting for hitler to give his reaction on this one (which there will be one)

Any ideas on who could had done this? to hack into PSN is a big thing, Crinimal syndicate or some lone hacker? First i heard of this happening to the gaming industry, well on this scale anyway.

Agent Sorchus · Post by **Agent Sorchus** » 2011-04-30 07:10pm

Well Anonymous declared "war" against Sony in the last month over their defense of a certain anti-piracy court case, so most likely someone who is allied to them. (As I understand it the initial take down of PSN was by anonymous, but that was before this most recent thing as I understand it.)

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2011-05-01 05:20am

Anonymous denied responsibility for this hack, and they're quick to trumpet about anything they do pull off.

Psychic_Sandwich · Post by **Psychic_Sandwich** » 2011-05-01 05:49am

Yeah. 'For once, it wasn't us' is the quote, I believe.

Lokwar · Post by **Lokwar** » 2011-05-01 08:32pm

If i unplugged the ethernet cable from the ps3, does that mean they wont be able to steal my information or is it saved specifically on the sony network?

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2011-05-02 12:28am

It was all stored on their servers.

Lord Woodlouse · Post by **Lord Woodlouse** » 2011-05-02 05:49pm

It's all since happened anyway, PSN will be back and secured within a couple of days.

If information was to be lost, it happened about two weeks ago. Sony shut down the network entirely to repair it back then.

Supposedly the risk of credit card info being lost was exceedingly negligible, as it was encrypted. You want to be careful with people contacting you for credit card info and websites with which you might be using the same usernames or passwords as your PSN account (best advised to change the passwords at least).

Edward Yee · Post by **Edward Yee** » 2011-05-03 02:22am

I expect to be doing password changes, BUT I must admit that I hope that the "old database" story really is true re: SOE, since I didn't start paying for SOE stuff until after that.

Lokwar · Post by **Lokwar** » 2011-05-03 08:41am

SoE made a giant update to the problem on all of their websites and took down all of their services, including online games on the computer.

http://www.soe.com/securityupdate/

Is their press release

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