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PlayStation Woes Continue

By MorganJEast 2 years ago • 8 Comments

As we reach day seven of the outage for PlayStation Network users, Sony informed members that not only is the network is now shut down INDEFINITELY, but their personal/billing information may have been obtained during the breach as well.

So what does this mean the hackers had access to? Pretty much anything and everything. According to Sony this means your name, address (city, state, zip), country, email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity password and login, and handle/PSN online ID.

That all seems relatively normal information a hacker may gather, but then there was the twist. Sony stated the following in addition to all of that information:

“It is also possible that your profile data, including purchase history and billing address (city, state, zip), and your PlayStation Network/Qriocity password security answers may have been obtained. If you have authorized a sub-account for your dependent, the same data with respect to your dependent may have been obtained. While there is no evidence at this time that credit card data was taken, we cannot rule out the possibility. If you have provided your credit card data through PlayStation Network or Qriocity, out of an abundance of caution we are advising you that your credit card number (excluding security code) and expiration date may have been obtained.”

That’s not good. Not only for the users but also for Sony as this could lead to some major legal issues as Sony has over 69 million registered user accounts as of January, 2011.

“Largest-ever breach of its type.” – Alan Paller, research director of the SANS Institute

UPDATE: SEVEN DAYS LATER, today Sony FINALLY admitted that some 77 million accounts have been compromised, so if you have a credit card or debit card attached to your account you may have to do what our Editor-in-Chief had to do; cancel and order a new card.

Or be one of MILLIONS to tell this kind of story (courtesy KTLA.com):

BOO. FAIL. EPIC FAIL.

Tags

77 million, FAIL, Hackers, PSN

iloura

2 years ago

Wow, I only hope for the single mom involved her CC company fixes it soon! Not really having a lot of faith in Sony right now. There's no excuse whatsoever for this, they should have protected data WAY more.

NadeShiko9

2 years ago

My card was used at Match.com I didn't do it, Could that be related.
4/23/11

SweetIvy

2 years ago

Well I got a email from sony: "
We have discovered that between April 17 and April 19, 2011,
certain PlayStation Network and Qriocity service user account
information was compromised in connection with an illegal and
unauthorized intrusion into our network. "

I havent seen anything charged on my card BUT I'm going to the bank tomorrow to cancel and get a new card better safe than sorry.

Quoting From Sankaku Complex its one of the worst leaks on record...

The history of leaks:

2004 – Softbank – 4,500,000
2005 – Visa, Mastercard – 40,000,000
2006 – KDDI – 4,000,000 – AOL – 660,000
2009 – ALICO Japan – 130,000
2010 – AT&T 110,000 -
2011 – SONY – 77,000,000 – Messe Sanoh – 1405

Boom. Headshot.

Widget

2 years ago

And that's why the 360 has Microsoft points =P

Widget

2 years ago

And that's why the 360 has Microsoft points =P

Alexei

2 years ago

@widget Yeah but countless people have had their CC# stolen on XBL and was used it to buy the max MS points you can buy a day. I know of at least 1 friend who had his CC# stolen and they used it to buy $250 in MS points over 2 days.

Widget

2 years ago

There's still the option of over the counter MS points. Much safer than giving anyone your CC#.

Alexei

2 years ago

Yeah can do the same for PSN. Still in the end it's all a huge pain. Sony has a a few days to go still to top XBL's 11 day downtime back in '07 I think it was.

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