Sony: 77 million playstation network accounts compromised

[Tach Deneva]

"To say that Sony has a mess on its hands may be the understatement of the year. On Tuesday, Sony posted a blog entry that provides some more information on the recent PlayStation Network hack. According to Sony, hackers obtained users' names, addresses, e-mail addresses birthdates, and account login and password, and may have also taken users' security questions and answers. If you set up a sub-account for your child, that information may also be in hackers' hands."

Uh Oh!

Anybody here have a playstation network account?

[Hudson]

yep, but we never paid for the better version, just the free one, and on the plus side I don't think I've ever put in a credit card or made a purchase. And if I have my card has been replaced since then, so on the plus side I should be fairly safe. Unfreaking believable though. Peoples addresses, names, accounts, passwords (hashes, I hope?), email addresses, and so on still go a long way to sucking either way.

b/w removing the other os stuff, suing the guy that hacked the PS3 to run custom firmwares, and now thise they are really really endearing them to just every community in existence.

[PanzerMeyer]

I'm not a console owner and will never be one so I'm safe from this fiasco!

[Softball]

I'm not a console owner and will never be one so I'm safe from this fiasco!

Until Steam gets hacked... ;)

[PanzerMeyer]

I'm not a console owner and will never be one so I'm safe from this fiasco!

Until Steam gets hacked... ;)

The guys at Valve are a lot smarter than the guys at Sony!

[Tach Deneva]

I'm not a console owner and will never be one so I'm safe from this fiasco!

Until Steam gets hacked... ;)

The guys at Valve are a lot smarter than the guys at Sony!

Maybe they are the hackers!

[Tach Deneva]

Evidently it's not just the playstation network accounts. Got this today:

Customer Service Notification

May 2, 2011

Dear Valued Sony Online Entertainment Customer:

Our ongoing investigation of illegal intrusions into Sony Online Entertainment systems has discovered that hackers may have obtained personal customer information from SOE systems. We are today advising you that the personal information you provided us in connection with your SOE account may have been stolen in a cyber-attack. Stolen information includes, to the extent you provided it to us, the following: name, address (city, state, zip, country), email address, gender, birthdate, phone number, login name and hashed password.

Customers outside the United States should be advised that we further discovered evidence that information from an outdated database from 2007 containing approximately 12,700 non-US customer credit or debit card numbers and expiration dates (but not credit card security codes) and about 10,700 direct debit records listing bank account numbers of certain customers in Germany, Austria, Netherlands and Spain may have also been obtained and we will be notifying each of those customers promptly.

There is no evidence that our main credit card database was compromised. It is in a completely separate and secured environment.

We had previously believed that SOE customer data had not been obtained in the cyber-attacks on the company, but on May 1st we concluded that SOE account information may have been stolen and we are notifying you as soon as possible.

We apologize for the inconvenience caused by the attack and as a result, we have:

1. Temporarily turned off all SOE game services;
2. Engaged an outside, recognized security firm to conduct a full and complete investigation into what happened; and
3. Quickly taken steps to enhance security and strengthen our network infrastructure to provide you with greater protection of your personal information.

We greatly appreciate your patience, understanding and goodwill as we do whatever it takes to resolve these issues as quickly and efficiently as practicable.

For your security, we encourage you to be especially aware of email, telephone, and postal mail scams that ask for personal or sensitive information. Sony will not contact you in any way, including by email, asking for your credit card number, social security number or other personally identifiable information. If you are asked for this information, you can be confident Sony is not the entity asking. When SOE™'s services are fully restored, we strongly recommend that you log on and change your password. Additionally, if you use your Station or SOE game account name or password for other unrelated services or accounts, we strongly recommend that you change them, as well.

I tried a demo of EQII a few years ago, which I suppose is why I got this message. Anyway, scary stuff.

[VEGETA]

and this is why I never gave sony my credit card.

[Ghost]

Hey Veg! Thought you were gone for good. Good to hear from you. why don't you start loging on Friday nights to play with us.

[PanzerMeyer]

Hey Veg! Thought you were gone for good. Good to hear from you. why don't you start loging on Friday nights to play with us.

Dont waste your breath Ghost. lol

[VEGETA]

We will see. Not even sure what games u are playing at the moment.

[PanzerMeyer]

Not even sure what games u are playing at the moment.

Sins of a Solar Empire
Supreme Commander 2
ArmA 2
KA-50 Black Shark
DCS A-10
Company of Heroes


I would like to do some Borderlands as well.