Anonymous claims PSN hack affecting 10 million

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A member of hacker group Anonymous has claimed to have hacked the PlayStation Network.

According to the 'hacker', a 50GB database of user information has been stolen, affecting some 10 million people.
A list of email addresses and seemingly encrypted passwords has been published, linked to via Anonymous' Twitter account.

But are the claims genuine? Evidence suggests not; as Kotaku reports, the list of supposed PSN email addresses released by the hacker appears to be a cut-and-paste of a previous and seemingly unrelated email list posted back in March.

Regardless, probably worth nipping online and changing your password, just in case.

Sony is yet to respond to requests for comment.

The threat of another PSN hack will be no small thing for PlayStation owners who endured weeks of PSN downtime and the threat of identity theft when the network was hit with a series of major attacks last year.

Update: Sony Computer Entertainment America's Shane Bettenhausen has deemed the claims "totally fake" via a Twitter post that has since seemingly been deleted.

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Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/363355/anonymous-claims-psn-hack-affecting-10-million/

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yayPosted:

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Emazing-Lights
Mazur
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Mazur
Stain They do have lives there just kinda useless.


Yeah, they could be doing something more productive with the skills they have instead of messing with peoples personal info


True, but i think they wanna let people know about them!


now why would they want to go and do that


Probably for publicity.


True but i think they are big enough second time hacking PSN


Do they NEED more attention? I mean, they already did it once, successfully. They really need to do it again?

CearnsyPosted:

Emazing-Lights
Mazur
Aced
Mazur
Stain They do have lives there just kinda useless.


Yeah, they could be doing something more productive with the skills they have instead of messing with peoples personal info


True, but i think they wanna let people know about them!


now why would they want to go and do that


Probably for publicity.


True but i think they are big enough second time hacking PSN

iiExaMplezZzPosted:

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Scanty I'd like to see anonymous hack xbox. I doubt even they could.


i doubt they can, microsoft has top of the line security systems


If they can hack the goverment they can hack ms


that's a valid argument. I don't think i can rebuttle with anything lol


Anonymous probably could hack xbox live, but they wouldnt. They only hack things that they feel have done something or support something that they say is wrong.

MazurPosted:

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Mazur
Scanty I'd like to see anonymous hack xbox. I doubt even they could.


i doubt they can, microsoft has top of the line security systems


If they can hack the goverment they can hack ms


that's a valid argument. I don't think i can rebuttle with anything lol

AcedPosted:

Mazur
Scanty I'd like to see anonymous hack xbox. I doubt even they could.


i doubt they can, microsoft has top of the line security systems


If they can hack the goverment they can hack ms

MazurPosted:

Scanty I'd like to see anonymous hack xbox. I doubt even they could.


i doubt they can, microsoft has top of the line security systems

yayPosted:

I'd like to see anonymous hack xbox. I doubt even they could.

TelescopePosted:

Xbox_GTA_V Rofl PlayStation needs a better firewall so they can't get hacked..

-Xbox


Ya Xbox all the way man i just laugh at PSN users.

AcedPosted:

Emazing-Lights
Mazur
Aced
Mazur
Stain They do have lives there just kinda useless.


Yeah, they could be doing something more productive with the skills they have instead of messing with peoples personal info


True, but i think they wanna let people know about them!


now why would they want to go and do that


Probably for publicity.


Obv to let people beware, if they didnt want publicity they wouldnt tell the world what they do ?

CearnsyPosted:

-Team-GB- i wouldnt put this past me once again as this is ovbiously for publicity, all they want is people to actually take notice of them, im not gonna risk it and let my ps3 account go if it does get hacked so i am changing every few hours.


I wouldn't say that they are known and if they wanted known im sure the whole of PSN would be down


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