PSN May Be Hacked Again!

Anonymous claims it broke into the PlayStation Network and has a 50 gigabyte database of email accounts and their passwords. Ten million accounts "are at risk," says the hacker involved. The passwords appear to be encrypted, and many of the accounts published in this document appear to be from northern Europe. This still would be a great time to double-check your password security.

Source: http://kotaku.com/5935040/anonymous-claims-psn-breach-affecting-10-million-accounts

[Update] The list in question appears to be a copy of this pastebin posting from March 19.

[Update] Shane Bettenhausen, with business development at Sony Computer Entertainment America, says the claim is "totally fake."

This nonsense better not start all over again.

Why?

@chrismafuchris: because people are bored and stupid jerks?

I would change my password now. Just in case. Beyond that, lets wait and see what Sony says.

Xbox fanboys

/sarcasm

*Sigh* Remember when Anonymous was respectable?

Right, neither do I.

I have no idea what my PSN login information is anymore. I stopped using it after the last hacking.

Again? Fuck!

Why? What kind of sad loser do you have... nevermind, don't answer that. I already know. These people are scum. There aren't enough words in any language, neither past nor present, to properly describe how fucking sad this is.

My hopes are this is just a scare and that file is full of old data from their attack last year. I guess we'll see if it's real or not if PSN goes down today or tomorrow for "maintenance".

oh yay more hacks maybe we can get free games again

@Lunar_Aura said:

oh yay more hacks maybe we can get free games again

that's the spirit

@Lunar_Aura: I kinda want a free month of PlayStation Plus again. I know it's wrong to look at it that way but I do lol.

Fuck anonymous. Cyber punks

None of my credit card information is saved on my account, but I'm changing my password (even though I did that like 2 days ago >__>).

lol it's probably bad that my first thought was 'maybe I can get a free copy of Journey out of this.'

Oh no, oh lordy lord. 
Whatever are we gonna do? Those moron kids got a hold of something again and will never do anything with it, again. 
Deary me, how terrible it all is we're all doomed aah aah ahh etc. 

It's bullshit. Maybe Kotaku could learn how to do proper journalism sometime.

[Update] The list in question appears to be a copy of this pastebin posting from March 19.

[Update] Shane Bettenhausen, with business development at Sony Computer Entertainment America, says the claim is "totally fake."

@LikeaSsur said:

*Sigh* Remember when Anonymous was respectable?

Right, neither do I.

there was a time when they were warning against the dangers of scientology. i thought that was great, since then they have gone down hill.

Man, fuck anonymous.

Hm... who are we mad at here?

• The hackers for trying (and succeeding, if these hacks are confirmed to be recent) to hack PSN;
• or Sony (again, if these hacks are confirmed to be recent) for not learning from the previous attack and not increasing security?

If you leave the door of your house unlocked, it's not solely the burgler's fault for entering and stealing some things.

I don't think anyone has yet to have their credit card charged from the big PSN hack.

lol Jesus, people are all too quick to shit their pants now when they hear "anonymous" and "hack".

It's a hoax.

Update in the article linked says its a hoax.

Carry on people, you'll get your free games some other time.

@JDillinger said:

It's bullshit. Maybe Kotaku could learn how to do proper journalism sometime.

[Update] The list in question appears to be a copy of this pastebin posting from March 19.

[Update] Shane Bettenhausen, with business development at Sony Computer Entertainment America, says the claim is "totally fake."

Ok what the hell! how come Kotaku still is regarded as a legit news site when is constantly spreading false information , what a bunch of hacks.

"It's all psychological. You yell 'Julian Assange' everybody says 'Huh? What?' You yell 'Anonymous,' we've got a panic on our hands on the fourth of July."

@zyn said:

Hm... who are we mad at here?

• The hackers for trying (and succeeding, if these hacks are confirmed to be recent) to hack PSN;
• or Sony (again, if these hacks are confirmed to be recent) for not learning from the previous attack and not increasing security?

If you leave the door of your house unlocked, it's not solely the burgler's fault for entering and stealing some things.

You are a fucking idiot.

@SoothsayerGB: You're right...I bet they're watching this now even as we speak...

Well I changed my pw and removed my credit card. I probably shouldn't have had it on there anyway to be honest.

Sweet! More free games! Hope it's InFamous 2 this time.

If they were really on the side of gamers as they claim, and not simply against Sony and other corporate entities, they would attack their finances, and not screw over the customers. Not surprisingly they're liars.

@Atramentous said:

@zyn said:

Hm... who are we mad at here?

• The hackers for trying (and succeeding, if these hacks are confirmed to be recent) to hack PSN;
• or Sony (again, if these hacks are confirmed to be recent) for not learning from the previous attack and not increasing security?

If you leave the door of your house unlocked, it's not solely the burgler's fault for entering and stealing some things.

You are a fucking idiot.

Not wearing a cast iron chastity belt? It's partly your fault for being raped.

it's fake, update on the article.

I'm waiting for my free games...

@zyn said:

If you leave the door of your house unlocked, it's not solely the burgler's fault for entering and stealing some things.

Actually it is solely the burglars fault.

Right when I was starting to forget that I lost a whole bunch of trophies last year. Sigh.

@Jams said:

@Atramentous said:

@zyn said:

Hm... who are we mad at here?

• The hackers for trying (and succeeding, if these hacks are confirmed to be recent) to hack PSN;
• or Sony (again, if these hacks are confirmed to be recent) for not learning from the previous attack and not increasing security?

If you leave the door of your house unlocked, it's not solely the burgler's fault for entering and stealing some things.

You are a fucking idiot.

Not wearing a cast iron chastity belt? It's partly your fault for being raped.

Now, now, I do agree that a company holding your personal information has an obligation to secure it as well as they possibly can. Both analogies of the burglar and the chastity belt are kind of useless because in this case there is a middle man/third party (Sony). I am trying to think of a better analogy but it's not easy, best one I could think of is in these two examples would be:

* Hiring security to guard your house but they fall asleep and leave the door open

* Being raped because your chastity belt that they sold as secure is terrible

Still terrible, but the distinction is important here.

EDIT: Just to be clear, the thief and raper are still responsible, but the guards and chastity belt maker are going to get sued by me.

Except for Giant Bomb, every game website I check for news reported on this story. All just based on a single tweet that's since been deleted.

Game journalism folks...

@zyn said:

Hm... who are we mad at here?

• The hackers for trying (and succeeding, if these hacks are confirmed to be recent) to hack PSN;
• or Sony (again, if these hacks are confirmed to be recent) for not learning from the previous attack and not increasing security?

If you leave the door of your house unlocked, it's not solely the burgler's fault for entering and stealing some things.

You really are an ass.

@Jams said:

@Atramentous said:

@zyn said:

Hm... who are we mad at here?

• The hackers for trying (and succeeding, if these hacks are confirmed to be recent) to hack PSN;
• or Sony (again, if these hacks are confirmed to be recent) for not learning from the previous attack and not increasing security?

If you leave the door of your house unlocked, it's not solely the burgler's fault for entering and stealing some things.

You are a fucking idiot.

Not wearing a cast iron chastity belt? It's partly your fault for being raped.

Except in this case, a third party is relying on the victim to protect both parties' shared interests. Edit the analogy as you will to reflect this...

UPDATE - Anonymous removed the tweet, so it was clearly a stupid fkin hoax!

It's fake, guys

Didn't Anonymous say they didn't do it last time? I doubt they would post something like that on their Twitter and brag about it. Shit is fake.

@Atramentous said:

@zyn said:

Hm... who are we mad at here?

• The hackers for trying (and succeeding, if these hacks are confirmed to be recent) to hack PSN;
• or Sony (again, if these hacks are confirmed to be recent) for not learning from the previous attack and not increasing security?

If you leave the door of your house unlocked, it's not solely the burgler's fault for entering and stealing some things.

You are a fucking idiot.

@Atramentous your my hero

@GrantHeaslip said:

@zyn said:

Hm... who are we mad at here?

• The hackers for trying (and succeeding, if these hacks are confirmed to be recent) to hack PSN;
• or Sony (again, if these hacks are confirmed to be recent) for not learning from the previous attack and not increasing security?

If you leave the door of your house unlocked, it's not solely the burgler's fault for entering and stealing some things.

That's a stupid metaphor, not to mention a shitty way of thinking. If you really want to try to equate this with home security (and you shouldn't!), a better formulation would be "if you don't fortify your house to withstand bunker busters, it's not solely the burgler's fault for using military-grade weapons to get in." PSN's metaphorical door has always been locked tight -- it's not like their server was a stock Linux install allowing anonymous SSH connections with root access. I mean, let's be serious, 99% of houses could be broken into trivially. If someone busted your window and cleared out your living room, would you really be mad at yourself for not buying fortified windows?

Sony was never incompetent at running servers -- every major site on the internet is hit with a constant barrage of sophisticated attacks. Yes, they could have done better (and presumably have improved), but one successful hack doesn't mean they're suddenly unable to be trusted.

Also, can we stop trusting Kotaku stories until they're corroborated by actual journalists?

Yeah, you're right. My metaphor was bad. I take that back.

And since this report has been debunked, let's all go back to talking games!

Look at it this way, it'll take 7 months to fix. But we'll get more free games.

Has the Wii ever been hacked?

Updated to be fake via Kotaku.

[Update] The list in question appears to be a copy of this pastebin posting from March 19.

[Update] Shane Bettenhausen, with business development at Sony Computer Entertainment America, says the claim is "totally fake."

Kotaku really has become the tabloid of games journalism hasn't it?