Hackers stole personal data from PlayStation Network

[GoDM1N]

http://ingame.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/ ... on-network

[Ackybur]

Dude that sucks... Sucks for you ps3 players

[Echoplex]

The fact that they were so vague for so long and that they're using terms like "unsure" about the CC database security, it almost guarantees that the credit card info got stolen too.

Anyway, in addition to your name, address, email, probably your credit card, etc, they also got your PSN acct name/password. So if you share passwords between services/logins, you might want to switch those too

(xbox 4 lyfe scrubz)


Edit: Yup, Amazon accounts in particular have been getting compromised like crazy apparently
**IF YOU SHARE LOGIN INFO BETWEEN AMAZON/EBAY AND PSN, CHANGE IT**

[Echoplex]

ROFL:

"We exclude all liability for loss of data or unauthorised access to your data, Sony Online Network account or Sony Online Network wallet and for damage caused to your software or hardware as a result of using or accessing Sony Online Network," the terms state.


Have fun in court :I

[Ackybur]

The fact that they were so vague for so long and that they're using terms like "unsure" about the CC database security, it almost guarantees that the credit card info got stolen too.

Anyway, in addition to your name, address, email, probably your credit card, etc, they also got your PSN acct name/password. So if you share passwords between services/logins, you might want to switch those too

(xbox 4 lyfe scrubz)

Oh they did. Who would pass that up?

[Toaster]

anon strikes again

[Ackybur]

anon strikes again

Think we should tell tktht to cancel his credit card?

[Amplify]

anon strikes again

Think we should tell tktht to cancel his credit card?

Leave him be and find out himself.

[Echoplex]

Hahaha someone just told me that Gamestop won't take any more PS3 tradeins

[Ackybur]

anon strikes again

Think we should tell tktht to cancel his credit card?

Leave him be and find out himself.

That's also a good idea. Poooor take that never getting toplay portal 2

[Nikki Wolf]

I never have used my credit card on PSN, so I'm safe on that. Still, it does suck to have my information compromised.

[Toaster]

anon strikes again

Think we should tell tktht to cancel his credit card?

It's going to a good cause

[KillerProtist]

This is the reason why you should NEVER use your actual credit card number. I'm quite sure all the major credit card companies now do secure online numbers for Amazon, PSN, etc.

[BoB Dolen]

anon strikes again

To bad wasn't them.

[JimBob]

anon strikes again

To bad wasn't them.

Anon is a person, not people. So technically speak, it would be "too bad it wasn't HIM". It was a "them" though, as it was a group of anon-wannabe's

[HibiscusKazeneko]

anon strikes again

To bad wasn't them.

Anon is a person, not people. So technically speak, it would be "too bad it wasn't HIM". It was a "them" though, as it was a group of anon-wannabe's

And HOW do you know this?
EDIT: Scratch that, I remember now. The attack is a form of revenge for Sony taking legal action against George Hotz and Alexander Egorenkov. They have a good point, though: it's wrong of Sony to dictate how customers use a product they have already purchased and paid for. It's like Subway dictating how to eat one of their sandwiches. It does nothing but invade people's privacy and open up the floodgates for other human rights abuses (as we already saw in 2005).

[Ackybur]

Don't think it's that. Hot didn't pay anything and was offered a job by Sony. Not a bad turn out IMO

[HibiscusKazeneko]

Hot didn't pay anything and was offered a job by Sony. Not a bad turn out IMO

Not from what I've read.
Sony is notorious for using abusive measures to ensure security around their intellectual property; in 2005 they got in trouble for releasing music CDs that when inserted into a computer's CD-ROM drive would install rootkit software that intentionally opened up security holes and allowed worms to infect people's computers. They claimed this was all in the name of piracy prevention; unfortunately for them the public and the courts didn't agree. I remember then-Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott successfully sued them for violating a state law prohibiting companies from purposefully producing or enabling malicious software.
This case on top of the previous XBOX 360 lawsuit set an ominous precedent for independent software developers and possibly for the general public; I can see this case being used as an excuse for companies to use copyright law to keep people from knowing how machines work and upgrading or repairing them themselves. They'd love this because it would mean they could intentionally produce products cheaply and crummily and when their products break, the only legal option you'd have is to send it in for extremely costly "repairs" that would only make the problem worse, and the cycle would continue. It's basically a legalized scam.

[Ackybur]

I read they may be reaching out to him for Independent security work. He wasn't charged. The settlement was just in principle and a promise to not do it again. Also, if the attack had anything to do with holtz it was probably because Sony got all ip addresses involved with it. Anyone who visited his site is now known by Sony

[Toaster]

The only legal option you'd have is to send it in for extremely costly "repairs" that would only make the problem worse, and the cycle would continue. It's basically a legalized scam.

Sounds like apple... minus the extremely costly "repairs" bit

[Ackybur]

It would be bad for business if they did that. If a product is obviously terrible then only idiots would buy them

[JimBob]

EDIT: Scratch that, I remember now. The attack is a form of revenge for Sony taking legal action against George Hotz and Alexander Egorenkov. They have a good point, though: it's wrong of Sony to dictate how customers use a product they have already purchased and paid for. It's like Subway dictating how to eat one of their sandwiches. It does nothing but invade people's privacy and open up the floodgates for other human rights abuses (as we already saw in 2005).

Exactly xD Also, Anon originiated on 4chan, and if you browse 4chan, you can easily tell who the real Anon is.

[Spyder]

[HibiscusKazeneko]

EDIT: Scratch that, I remember now. The attack is a form of revenge for Sony taking legal action against George Hotz and Alexander Egorenkov. They have a good point, though: it's wrong of Sony to dictate how customers use a product they have already purchased and paid for. It's like Subway dictating how to eat one of their sandwiches. It does nothing but invade people's privacy and open up the floodgates for other human rights abuses (as we already saw in 2005).

Exactly xD Also, Anon originiated on 4chan, and if you browse 4chan, you can easily tell who the real Anon is.

That and Encyclopedia Dramatica had a page on it (before they disappeared from the interwebs for good).

[VoltySquirrel]

Hot didn't pay anything and was offered a job by Sony. Not a bad turn out IMO

Not from what I've read.
Sony is notorious for using abusive measures to ensure security around their intellectual property; in 2005 they got in trouble for releasing music CDs that when inserted into a computer's CD-ROM drive would install rootkit software that intentionally opened up security holes and allowed worms to infect people's computers. They claimed this was all in the name of piracy prevention; unfortunately for them the public and the courts didn't agree. I remember then-Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott successfully sued them for violating a state law prohibiting companies from purposefully producing or enabling malicious software.
This case on top of the previous XBOX 360 lawsuit set an ominous precedent for independent software developers and possibly for the general public; I can see this case being used as an excuse for companies to use copyright law to keep people from knowing how machines work and upgrading or repairing them themselves. They'd love this because it would mean they could intentionally produce products cheaply and crummily and when their products break, the only legal option you'd have is to send it in for extremely costly "repairs" that would only make the problem worse, and the cycle would continue. It's basically a legalized scam.

Yeah, not only that, but Geohotz is actually calling Sony out on their shit. Look here:
http://www.destructoid.com/geohot-blames-sony-executives-for-psn-hacking-debacle-199965.phtml
As he explains it, Sony's rabid disdain for piracy has caused them to be pirated. Instead of hiring more engineers to beef up their security, they lawyered up instead to combat people doing no harm to Sony. He also condemned those who did pull the attack, as they are making the guys who make homebrew application look like douchebags. I actually got lucky. I was this close to buying Portal 2 for PS3, but decided against it. I thought my Companion Cube Pin was worth more. Turns out, it was.

[JimBob]

That and Encyclopedia Dramatica had a page on it (before they disappeared from the interwebs for good).

What do you mean "disappeared for good"? Unless I'm missing something, it still exists...
Anyway, there's no place to spend my time on the internet outside of video games anymore it seems like, as Reddit has just gotten bad, 4chan is just... Bleh. Old

[HibiscusKazeneko]

That and Encyclopedia Dramatica had a page on it (before they disappeared from the interwebs for good).

What do you mean "disappeared for good"? Unless I'm missing something, it still exists...

It's been replaced by Oh Internet. They don't nearly have all the info ED had yet (and probably never will).

[Spyder]

That and Encyclopedia Dramatica had a page on it (before they disappeared from the interwebs for good).

What do you mean "disappeared for good"? Unless I'm missing something, it still exists...

It's been replaced by Oh Internet. They don't nearly have all the info ED had yet (and probably never will).

In my opinion, Oh Internet (currently) sucks a fat one (and will continue to do so).

It doesn't have the same comedic value as Encyclopedia Dramatica did. It only states impartial information.

ED removed their articles on Black people and Jews, because the sponsors didn't approve. It went down hill since they started to adhere to the sponsors.

[Mike808]

YOUTUBE VID

haha that was great