Sony Hacked

npjnpj · 27 Apr 2011 at 09:35

Just fresh on the news: Sony has been hacked with millions of customer details stolen.
Sony recommends all customers check their bank accounts carefully from now on. Stolen credit card numbers are apparently a high probability.
Suppose this might belong in the console thread, but Sony also makes PC games, and anyway, a good giggle never hurt anyone.

sunny007 · 27 Apr 2011 at 09:37

PSN has been hacked, so wrong section

xb8browney · 27 Apr 2011 at 09:38

Name
Shipping address
Billing address
Country
E-mail address
Birthdate
PSN/Qriocity ID
PSN/Qriocity password
PSN/Qriocity security question and answer
Purchase history

no credit/debit card numbers :S

npjnpj · 27 Apr 2011 at 09:39

OK, please move or delete the thread then.
Playstation Network and musik service Qriocity have been hit worldwide.

Devrij · 27 Apr 2011 at 09:56

I lol'd

Neil79 · 27 Apr 2011 at 10:19

do not care....

This is the Pc master race

magick · 27 Apr 2011 at 10:37

xb8browney said:
no credit/debit card numbers :S

Official response from Sony

While there is no evidence at this time that credit card data was taken, we cannot rule out the possibility.

Translation "Credit Card have been stolen though we'll denie to save ourselves a PR anihalation"

Jono8 · 27 Apr 2011 at 10:47

Good job i never bought anything from the overpriced PSN store then!

CaptainRAVE · 27 Apr 2011 at 10:47

lol, way to crash and burn Sony.

Evilsod · 27 Apr 2011 at 11:27

magick said:
Translation "Credit Card have been stolen though we'll denie to save ourselves a PR anihalation"

Translation: "We are idiots and are almost certainly going to be the target of millions of lawsuits in the coming months when the Credit Card data that 'was not stolen' is used and we didn't warn our customers to cancel there cards."

Sounds more like GD material than Console/PC Games...

bushmins · 27 Apr 2011 at 11:29

Is this why the ps network has been down for a week? My son has been complaining. I also heard a while back that the group 'anonymous' were going to attack them.

Margaret · 27 Apr 2011 at 11:31

bushmins said:
Is this why the ps network has been down for a week? My son has been complaining. I also heard a while back that the group 'anonymous' were going to attack them.

It's going to be another week at the least.

uv · 27 Apr 2011 at 12:35

npjnpj said:
a good giggle never hurt anyone.

You realise that some PC gamers will also have a console, right?

I'm a PC gamer. I own ~200 games on Steam, and I pwn reasonably well at most games I play.

But, what's this? Shock! Horror! I also own a PS3 - for which I have used my card on PSN, which may now have been compromised. What a giggle!

Komedy · 27 Apr 2011 at 12:40

this thread raises a good questions : Could it happen to Steam ?

Vulcan · 27 Apr 2011 at 12:48

It could happen to any with poor security. I think Valve have learnt their lesson in regard to that.

unp|dissy · 27 Apr 2011 at 12:49

Old news. lol

.:MBK:. · 27 Apr 2011 at 12:49

where theres a will, theres a way, its naive to assume it will "never" happen, but the chances of it happening are slim...tbh i prefer to use paypal with steam anyway, but again, could paypal ever be compromised in such a manner...probably. Nothing is ever 100% secure

Xelene · 27 Apr 2011 at 13:01

.:MBK:. said:
where theres a will, theres a way, its naive to assume it will "never" happen, but the chances of it happening are slim...tbh i prefer to use paypal with steam anyway, but again, could paypal ever be compromised in such a manner...probably. Nothing is ever 100% secure

Paypal I think have to take their security seriously. A breach like this on their site would be the end of them.

The PSN thing is bad, fortunately I use a unique email address for each site/service so will just have to change the password on the PSN account and setup a spam filter.

Antar Bolaeisk · 27 Apr 2011 at 13:03

uv said:
You realise that some PC gamers will also have a console, right?

I'm a PC gamer. I own ~200 games on Steam, and I pwn reasonably well at most games I play.

But, what's this? Shock! Horror! I also own a PS3 - for which I have used my card on PSN, which may now have been compromised. What a giggle!

Death to the heretic!

Fairly shocking news though to hear that the PSN could be so badly compromised.

SMB30 · 27 Apr 2011 at 13:23

And storing credit card numbers in plain text. duh.

Smacks of "We could never be compromised..."