While Your PSN Trophies Are Safe, New York Times Says Your Credit Card Info May Not Be

This is really dangerous.

Film at eleven?

Does the PSN store have other options to buy content on it, like points or paypal?

" Does the PSN store have other options to buy content on it, like points or paypal? "

The database claims to contain Security Numbers for the cards. Which Sony doesn't store.

Thanks for being stupidly silent on the matter Sony.

There's been a few posts on reddit and a few on the forum here about people seeing and getting calls about unathorized charges. Can't really confirm whether they're truthful or not, but people on PSN might just want to get new cards before you have to deal with false charges and identify theft. It's not your fault, but the ensuing credit hit that comes with everything is just so much trouble that it's better to be pre-emptive about it.

i am less interested in the continued developments (the damage has been done) but i am incredibly curious as to how Sony is going to win back its users.

What an absolute mess! If (and that's a rather large if) Sony can get over this, will they even be able to gain customers trust again. I agree with those that recommend using PSN cards from now on. 

I've said this numerous times before, but it bears repeating.  if your credit card information was among those affected, call your card company now and have them issue you a new one.  The worst case scenario is that you'll be without an active credit card for about a week.

Glad I got my credit card cancelled.

Everybody makes it sounds like they were storing everything permanently including the CVC2.

They weren't.

I would happily trade my trophies for my credit card info.

Suck Fony

Oh awesome.

It's fake, the hackers even claimed to have the ccv2 code of the credit cards despite that PSN doesn't request such information.

The way Sony is handling this is beyond disgusting.  Quit telling us what you don't know and start telling us what you do know Sony. 

I'm pissed off as hell right now. 

Tickets for Phish at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago go on sale tomorrow morning.  This concert is going to sell out within minutes, but because of Sony I had to call and cancel my credit card on Wednesday and was told that I would not receive a new one until one or two weeks from now. 

Sony better either pony up and buy me some Phish tickets or somehow be able to repay me for the fact that I am going to be missing the only vacation I was going to have a chance to go on this year.  I don't even know how you put a monetary value on something like that, but Sony better find a way to make this up to us. If I have to dish out $500 a piece for scalper tickets than Sony better be covering that cost for me as well.  2 weeks without my credit card is going to put a serious strain on my bank account, and now it's causing me to miss the closest Phish shows to me and hence means that I probably won't even be able to see them this summer. 

The database sale sounds like a hoax, or someone trying to cash in on the hysteria. Still, the bad press keeps rolling out and Sony has done little except make a few blog posts. It's a bush league reaction, and they are going to pay for it in public perception.

I think all the news organizations need to take a pill and stop trying to get readers through hype.  Because every time anyone says anything about this thing it explodes.  I think everyone needs to do some fact checking before they go off half cocked and report things. Oh yeah, that would be responsible, no one does that anymore.

" I would happily trade my trophies for my credit card info. "

Future purchases of PSN stuff will be via point cards for me. Nice work, Sony.

thats been debunked because companies cant store your CVV2 number.

Ohh Sony... I almost feel bad, until i remember it was their own shitty infrastructure which lead to all this. 

The breach of trust is worsened by the awful way Sony continues to handle this.

MS and Nintendo are big evil corporations too but hey, at least they didn't compromise my fucking credit card.

" The way Sony is handling this is beyond disgusting.  Quit telling us what you don't know and start telling us what you do know Sony.  I'm pissed off as hell right now.  Tickets for Phish at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago go on sale tomorrow morning.  This concert is going to sell out within minutes, but because of Sony I had to call and cancel my credit card on Wednesday and was told that I would not receive a new one until one or two weeks from now.  Sony better either pony up and buy me some Phish tickets or somehow be able to repay me for the fact that I am going to be missing the only vacation I was going to have a chance to go on this year.  I don't even know how you put a monetary value on something like that, but Sony better find a way to make this up to us. If I have to dish out $500 a piece for scalper tickets than Sony better be covering that cost for me as well.  2 weeks without my credit card is going to put a serious strain on my bank account, and now it's causing me to miss the closest Phish shows to me and hence means that I probably won't even be able to see them this summer.  "

HAH, TOO LATE, BITCHES. I CANCELLED MY SHIT YESTERDAY.

This makes me lol. I'm glad I pay 45 dollars a year to have a good online subscription =].

As much as I know that no network is truly safe, I have to believe that a large part of the cost of Xbox Live (which many gamers love to knock on) is only notable in the things that don't happen to it.  It could have little to do with it, but this may be an unfortunate case of getting what you pay for in regards to PSN.

Canceled my card two days ago. Thanks Sony for keeping me in the dark for a week.

Who's the one douchebag on Facebook that likes this?

Apparently the 2.2 million CC info is fake from my er... investigative journalism.

Good thing the credit card I used on PSN got canned in August. 

The people shilling the 2.2 million CC database are supposedly saying the data comes with CVV2s as well, something that was never collected by Sony. Not that people shouldn't continue to be on alert for fraud, but I call BS on this claim that these cards are from PSN users. It's just brilliant dishonest marketing tactics coming out of a community of thieves targeted at idiots eager to spend money buying card numbers from a very high profile breach.

Man now I don't know if I want to get a new card or not. Worst case scenario, I notice weird activity and cancel the charges, take the credit hit and move on. But I can't be without a card for however long it takes for them to send me a new one. I eat with that thing. 

well, I think the safest way to do a sony transaction now is with the game cards. this credit card thing is too much.

I think Klepek is a cool dude.   eh breaks stories and doesn't afraid of anything.

" HAH, TOO LATE, BITCHES. I CANCELLED MY SHIT YESTERDAY. "

If this goes bad, this could be really really bad for the video games industry as a whole.

I suddenly don't mind Nintendo asking me for my stuff everytime I buy something.

" @XII_Sniper: Same here, but mine expires in two months so I might just wait it out. "

" I've said this numerous times before, but it bears repeating.  if your credit card information was among those affected, call your card company now and have them issue you a new one.  The worst case scenario is that you'll be without an active credit card for about a week. "

Sony - Stop outsourcing jobs and insource network/IT security administrators and engineers. And while you are it....hire someone that will actually communicate with your "valuable" customers!!

Damnit Sony.  You OWE your customers more then this.  You NEED to be open on every single nitty gritty detail of this calamity.  Way to drag your own name through the dirt.  Even if this "database turns out to be fake, you need to let us know so that we can take steps to prevent identity theft.  

" The database claims to contain Security Numbers for the cards. Which Sony doesn't store.

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