Is PSN under attack? - PSN now back up 15/05

Surfer said:
^^^ i'm still fuzzy on the whole good bad thing.


all our personal info is stolen though - so uhh identity theft? setting up other accounts, applying for loans, i dunno?

When you sign up for a PSN account are you required to give date of birth?

on the other hand change your c/card details and a couple of passwords and its all good?
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I think they'd need a little more than name/address/dob to apply for a loan, although I'm not sure what. I think you are required to give a DOB.
Most likely what they'll do is use the information they have in phishing attempts, making out that they are your bank/Sony/facebook/email provider/ISP/ebay/paypal etc. because only a trusted organisation would already have your name/address/dob etc.
 
I manage a, b, c, and find time to game, but then I'm finding this current situation a mild annoyance, rather than the end of the entire universe as we know it.
 
Well ive ordered Portal2 on PS3 regardless cause i get PC version free then win!, Out of interest will any of you get rid of your PS3 cause of this? I for one wont but allot of people in various places are stating they will
 
Mark1989 said:
Well ive ordered Portal2 on PS3 regardless cause i get PC version free then win!, Out of interest will any of you get rid of your PS3 cause of this? I for one wont but allot of people in various places are stating they will
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No I won't. I use it for other things than gaming. What would getting rid of it acheive anyway? The damage has already been done.
 
ps3ud0 said:
Not that silly, I wont be putting my card details ever again (will anyone?) and hopefully Sony are investigated enough by the likes of the ICO to reduce the level of information required to make a PSN account (do they really need our address details) as Ill be removing as much as possible...

ps3ud0 :cool:
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Yeah, I will only be using PSN cards from now on. Much safer.
 
After all this I'd imagine that the PSN will probably be one of the safest places for your CC and personal info, they'll lock it all up tighter than nun's vagoogoo.
 
mcwildcard said:
After all this I'd imagine that the PSN will probably be one of the safest places for your CC and personal info, they'll lock it all up tighter than nun's vagoogoo.
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You would hope - but this is sadly Sony, common sense doesnt seem to prevail in their meetings...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
mcwildcard said:
After all this I'd imagine that the PSN will probably be one of the safest places for your CC and personal info, they'll lock it all up tighter than nun's vagoogoo.
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yea, and everytime you want to make a purchase you have to enter 10 lines of memorable information plus the name of your favorite pet when you were 2 years old. :o
 
yes but the fact that it takes something like this to make them lock it up like a nun's vagoogoo says a little something about Sony.
They were warned it was insecure but they don't really care about their customers. There's talk that the CEO will be given marching orders soonish, as this is just the latest failure, Sony hasn't been performing like a global leader for a while now, just look at their stock history.
 
roboffer said:
Is this an uneducated guess or have you worked on internet banking security?

On all of my account I have secrity questions AND a password.

As for not hashing the answers to your security questions imagine this. User enters password when signing up, password is split on each character, hashed and saved into the database individually. Then as you enter them individually to authenticate they are all rehashed and the hashed values compared. Simple.
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Not simple, a hash of a single character is useless, even with a salt added.

Natwest (one ive used) only ask you for 3 characters of your password and a 3 characters of your PIN. Their database will contain hashes of every possible 3 character subset. No matter how they do those hashes are made they will be brute forceable in about a day on a modern PC.
 
Sho said:
anyone know how much longer the psn network gona be down for?
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I got an email this morning and they said it may be down until early next week, fingers crossed they sort this mess out to be honest. I am expecting some kind of compensation too for the possible risk of personal data being stolen.
 
The law suits have already been filed by some people in the U.S. - other people will jump on the band wagon, try and sue Sony and if it gets messy i bet they pull the plug on it all.
 
nayan89 said:
I am expecting some kind of compensation too for the possible risk of personal data being stolen.
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What are you expecting, a new identity and witness protection plan :confused: :o

Are you also expecting compensation for possible traffic accidents that might happen, or compensation for the 747 that might fall out of the sky on your head?
 
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