Eh. This is why I have it on a crap credit card I don't care about with a limit sub $1k. I make 90% of my online purchases with that thing. Still sucks. Sony still doesn't know exactly what was compromised, and that in and of itself smacks of a terribly inept computer security team responsible for it. If you can't avoid the problem, you should at least know how to find out WHAT was compromised.
Sony needs to hire some capable people. I wonder where the breach happened. Is PSN down world-wide or just in the U.S.? I haven't kept up too much on the story and was not interested enough to care until I read here that personal info may have been compromised.
@shenstra: As far as the information goes, I'm more worried about the security questions than say my address or birthdate. I don't even remember what the PSN wanted for my security question, but if I had to guess, the name of my first pet or my first best friend's name isn't public information on the Internet. :(
Glad I didn't update my credit card info to PSN yet. Now I'm gonna think long and hard if I ever will. I mean it's not like there's anything super essential that I need to buy from there.
" Here's a question: Will PS3 users be willing to pay (even the smallest amount) so Sony can hire better people/ make PSN more secure and avoid anything like this in the future? (I expect a lot of no but GB is a vast ocean of opinions) Or what can Sony do to avoid this from happening?**Yes this can happen to XBL or any other payed service but that's unrelated. "
I would be, if I knew the money actually went towards security and infrastructure. But Sony isn't exactly the most transparent company out there. I think a more realistic solution would be to just keep making PS+ more attractive, get better content on PSN and rake in more money. Then they can take some of that profit (they do make a profit on PSN by now, I'd hope) and put it towards security.
Wow, great. Don't they have any security staff at all? The intrusion was PS3's using custom firmware to masquerade as debug systems. Why the hell is this kind of data accessible to anybody? All this stuff, even the most basic personal data, should be individually encrypted several times over and really shouldn't even be visible for the guys who built the network. That a system masquerading as a debug PS3 is allowed full access - with what seems like no safeguarding - to all this stuff is ridiculous.
So... any chance all those hackers who devoted time to hacking into PSN/PS3 are going to change their tune about it all being harmless and just so they can run their own software on PS3? Sony have been in a running battle with hackers to protect their platform, and the legitimate consumers amongst us continue to pay the price. I doubt Sony will release the details of how they hacked in, but I'd be willing to bet whatever the hacker leaves in my bank account that the exploit they used was enabled by this custom firmware that gave them access to the developers PSN.
This is some messed up sheet, bro. Did Sony know the extent of the hacker intrusion day one? If they did know, why in gods name did they wait so long to tell folks all their private info was compromised? Even if they didn't know they should've warned people to cancel their cards. Waiting so long to tell people is really inexcusable.
Well, that sucks. I'm fairly sure the password for my PSN wasn't unique, but it was a fairly unimportant one. Worrying about the CC details. Good job, Sony, lol.
Wow, has there ever been data loss on this scale before? Pretty incredible. Just moved the money that was in my account tied to the card i used on PSN into another account to be on safe side, think I'll be getting the bank to cancel that card tomorrow.
Xbox Live for online and downloads from now on then, I'll keep the PS3 for single player exclusives. Won't trust these incompetents again :-/
1: Fuck you Sony 2: cancelled my credit card to be safe 3: Probably selling my PS3 and never buying Sony again. This is a breach of trust that I can't live with.
People need to take a step back for a second and stop heaping all the blame on Sony. Obviously it's bad we weren't informed earlier but there must be a reason for that maybe they only just found out themselves, who knows!
More anger should be focused towards the perpetrators. Obviously they are faceless criminals right now but it's something to keep in mind. I keep seeing hilarious comments like "Oh back to my 360" or "This never happens to Microsoft"
This is a real mess, only made worse by the wall of silence Sony is producing. The Penny-Arcade guys got it right this Monday when they said Sony needs a strong PR person who knows how to talk to the audience. No offense to Mr.Seybold, but wait and see is not gonna cut it.
My CC info isn't on the PSN thank goodness but this is such a huge mess its unbelievable. I cant believe they waited this long to tell people. I wonder what the fallout from this will be.
that could possibly explain the oddball 9.99 charge from PSN on the 19th, seeing as how i didn't purchase anything or have any reoccurring things setup on my PSN account.
Wow... just wow. I always buy points cards and physical subscriptions from these online services, but I figured that was me being overly paranoid. Now this sorta thing happens. I'm going to go change my PSN password now... I really can't even make a joke about any of this.
If you aren't yet, go download and start using LastPass from www.lastpass.com. It's a 100% free (unless you need mobile access) password management and generation program. I've been using it for a while and it's generated random passwords for every site I use so I'm much less at risk from this attack. It's bulletproof security wise and works wonders. I'm not any kind of spokesman for them, this is just a really good and free solution to shield yourself from things like this.
