Sony Breaks Silence on PSN Outage, It’s Not Pretty
The “external intrusion” of the PSN included a “compromise of personal information”. Here’s what hackers got away with in the attack: Your name, address, country, email address, birthdate, PSN login and password. Since many people probably use the same passwords for numerous accounts across the web, hackers could have hit a goldmine of free access to many personal accounts. If you are one of these creatures of habit, now would be your que to leave this page and start changing your logins for your vital accounts if they used the same logins as your PSN account(s).
The email also details that it’s still unclear if profile data, which would include billing information and CREDIT CARD INFORMATION could have been compromised. Sony cautions users to change passwords once the network has been restored, and you should probably also check your credit card statements for unauthorized purchases, as well as credit reports for potential unknown accounts that may have been newly created with your information obtained on the network.
This announcement from Sony goes against what operators have been telling consumers that have called in to verify if their privacy has been breached, this won’t end well for Sony as it opens the corporation up to lawsuits where they could be held liable for negligence in failing to inform consumers of the level that which their “secure” network had been compromised.
In a small side note, PSN may be up and running within a week. It looks like we all just got one more thing to do while PSN is down, combat identity theft…yay!
http://attackofthefanboy.com/news/sony-breaks-silence-on-psn-outage-its-not-pretty/
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alexpounderPosted:
In the time I have been alive, I have had numerous times to be able to commit credit card fraud and steal thousands. I COULD have committed it- but I didn't. The people who have stolen this credit card information are assholes. Plain and simple. Someone who is stupid enough to steal from someone else from their credit card has no point in them existing. I think that the FBI and all over government agencies should clamp down hard on these criminals. There should be a warning out their that any people who steal this PS3 credit card information should pay every penny back to the owner and face LIFE imprisonment.
badboy2020Posted:
Decy- I Think its **** shocking that people like me have to cancel our debit/credit cards because a multi million company cant keep things secure.
Well done sony.
You are supporting the people who took your personal info..
Decy-Posted:
I Think its **** shocking that people like me have to cancel our debit/credit cards because a multi million company cant keep things secure.
Well done sony.
Well done sony.
_TTG-HAGGIS_Posted:
"ITS NOT PRETTY" personal i think its a **** outrage, they may not have the credit card ccv codes, but they still have enough info to steal some-ones identity, So personal i will never trust sony again
so ps3 on ebay you go
TTG HAGGIS
so ps3 on ebay you go
TTG HAGGIS
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