" Lol. I wish I remembered which password I used for PSN. "

Watching the journalists scream like children over twitter like they scold their commenters for is the one funny thing about all this    

Great.

Wow, good thing I don't make any purchases or play online with my PS3.

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.

I am done. I barely used my PS3 and this is it, I am finished with PSN. This is sad too, because I was really looking forward to Infamous 2.

Suck Fony

is this big enough to bring sonys gaming division down?

Maybe the Sony Defense Force can get a SWAT team in to get them back?

Condolences to my ps3 amigos. I feel like Sony's shitstorm is going to go Supernova now. Bust out the umbrellas!

This is so unbelievable.  Guess this means I won't be buying another thing from PSN.  Sorry I ever did.  Wow.

I hate Sony if it wasn't for MLB the show I'd throw it out my freaking window

Awesome job, Sony. On that note, I look forward to seeing what Nintendo's new console is like.

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.

Time to update passwords everyone!

" 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. "

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.

1000+ replies for sure

I feel safe.  Luckily I'm in USA, the federal courts will cover everything to the consumers.

Next Sony console will not have free online.

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.

In the past, this kind of security intrusion has been enough to bring down lesser corporations.

Wow, that really sucks. Good luck everyone!

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.

Sony can't just come out and say they have our CC info? Odds are if it was right there, it's gone.

Man, I don't have time to be changing all my damn passwords and get a new CC, fuck all of these hackers. 

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. 

I've just realized that this is a total disaster.

This is literally the worst possible situation that could ever occur to any online platform.

How the fuck did they let this happen, and furthermore, how can they handle in such a sloppy, uninformative way?

So I will be changing my passwords for everything as well as visiting the bank tomorrow to change my credit card. Thanks Sony! :D

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.

Well this hacker can go to hell. I hope they find him or her bragging about that shit cause they always brag.

Anon: clearly working in the interest of the consumer.

I declare it: Punch A Hacker In The Balls Day! If you know a hacker, any hacker, make sure and punch them in the balls.

FUCK

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.

Maybe my dreams of Steam being the default UI on PS3 is one step closer?

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!

At first, I tried to think of any other company information crisis, to see if they overcame it. Then I realized I couldn't think of any.

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.

I can't wait to see Kevin Butler: VP of Desperate Apologies.

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.

Well, back to just two consoles next generation then.

This is really insane now, I can't believe this actually happened wow.

They should of mentioned the credit card thing on day one, so people can take precautions or maybe they didn't know either.