Sony Report: PlayStation Network Possibly Hacked

[HardOCP News]

As with any publicly accessible network, it was just a matter of time before the PlayStation Network was hacked. It happens to banks all the time, Sony shouldn’t feel too bad.

Sony said the security breach occurred at the PlayStation Store, a content download service of the network. "Although unlikely, it is possible that the passwords of a small percentage of PlayStation Network users may have been changed through unauthorized access," the company said.

 

[azuros]

I always find these kinds of things funny because it is like companies require you to give them your personal information without regard to how they manage it, and when someones identity is stolen they are like, whoops, here is a free year subscription to a credit monitoring software, while you have to spend years rebuilding what has been destroyed.

 

[LurkerLito]

I have to agree. I always scratch my head when satellite companies like Dish and DirectTV demand to get your social security number to sign up for their service. It is the one reason I never signed up for their services even though I wanted to in the past.

The PSN store doesn't affect me since I always use a Virtual CC# on their site so even if someone got access to the info they couldn't charge anything to the card listed as it expires in a month and even if it wasn't, it only works at the company that charged to it first.

 

[zleuth]

How long until the inevitable 'We've grossly underestimated the extent of the breach' press release form Sony?
I like how they said "a small percentage of PlayStation Network users", which I interpret as meaning "most of you guys".
Let's see Sony show some hard numbers.

 

[SamuraiInBlack]

It'd be ironic if they got a rootkit planted on them.

Sorry, I had to say it.

 

[rabident]

WIth root access to all servers and network gear given to the cheapest overseas contractors, I'm suprised it doesn't happen more.

 

[whrswoldo]

These stories are becoming way too frequent. I don't know what's worse, this or MS Live accounts where people could call in pretending to be someone else and hijack their account.

 

[Nate Finch]

Just a note, this is the Playstation PC Store, saying the PlayStation Network that got hacked would be like saying hacking AOL.com is hacking the Internet.

The PlayStation PC store is just a website you log into, like any other. You can't extract credit card information from the site. If you read the story they say they could have changed passwords... they could have gotten the people's billing addresses. They could have used the account's billing address to buy downloadable content for that account. That's about it.

Yes, it's bad, but I wish people would post the facts a little more clearly.

 

[Serpico]

Credit card information isn't stored there if I'm not mistaken. Can anyone confirm?

 

[RangerXML]

It'd be ironic if they got a rootkit planted on them.

Sorry, I had to say it.

ROFLMAO! Irony, defined.