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Congress Directing Questions Towards Sony About PlayStation Network Security Breach
With over 77 million accounts compromised (over 100 million, bundled with Sony Online Entertainment), it was only a matter of time before Congress started asking questions. The New York Times obtained a copy of a letter sent to Sony on Friday by the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade, addressed to Sony executive Kaz Hirai.
The questions covered what you might expect, from "When did you become aware of the illegal and unauthorized intrusion?" to "Please explain why you do not believe credit card information was obtained and why you cannot determine if the data was in fact taken."
This letter was sent last week, prior to Sony disclosing at a press conference that 10 million credit card details were potentially obtained. The company is still investigating.
The letter demanded answers by May 6, and Venture Beat confirmed with Sony it is complying.
The New York Times made the letter publicly available on its website, too. You can read it here.
With over 77 million accounts compromised (over 100 million, bundled with Sony Online Entertainment), it was only a matter of time before Congress started asking questions. The New York Times obtained a copy of a letter sent to Sony on Friday by the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade, addressed to Sony executive Kaz Hirai.
The questions covered what you might expect, from "When did you become aware of the illegal and unauthorized intrusion?" to "Please explain why you do not believe credit card information was obtained and why you cannot determine if the data was in fact taken."
This letter was sent last week, prior to Sony disclosing at a press conference that 10 million credit card details were potentially obtained. The company is still investigating.
The letter demanded answers by May 6, and Venture Beat confirmed with Sony it is complying.
The New York Times made the letter publicly available on its website, too. You can read it here.
Congress, you're wasting your time. This ordeal is practically over once PSN is up. They've made their statements and their apologies, do some research next time.
" This letter was sent last week, prior to Sony disclosing at a press conference that 10 million credit card details were actually obtained."" Congress, you're wasting your time. This ordeal is practically over once PSN is up. They've made their statements and their apologies, do some research next time. "
If you'd read the article you'd have known that :)
This is nuts! Then again given the scope of the breach I suppose it was only a matter of time before the Hill started to knock on Sony's door.
Sony didn't say 10 million credit card records were obtained. They said they have 10 million credit card number records in total out of 77 million PSN accounts. They still say there is no evidence they were actually accessed, that they were encrypted in any case and the banks aren't seeing PSN related fraudulent activity. They've always used the phrase "may have been exposed" which is essentially code for "we're positive they are safe but are warning people anyway".
Fuck the US congress for wasting time on this issue. It ought to do something important, like reform the financial system, slash the military budget, or seriously address climate change. I repeat, fuck those bastards.
I mean, it's good that someone's looking into this, but shouldn't it be some federal agency, and not the Congress? Shouldn't they be voting on something?
" Sony didn't say 10 million credit card records were obtained. They said they have 10 million credit card number records in total out of 77 million PSN accounts. They still say there is no evidence they were actually accessed, that they were encrypted in any case and the banks aren't seeing PSN related fraudulent activity. They've always used the phrase "may have been exposed" which is essentially code for "we're positive they are safe but are warning people anyway". "To be fair you don't need to link a credit card number to a PSN account, and - at least before the TOS changed and led into this fiasco - you were able to remove a credit card number from your account as well.
" Fuck the US congress for wasting time on this issue. It ought to do something important, like reform the financial system, slash the military budget, or seriously address climate change. I repeat, fuck those bastards. "
Looks like Congress is anxious to game on PSN again too.
I do find it strange that Sony can tell us that certain data has been obtained through an illegal attack but they do not know if CC data was taken, In the email they sent they bascially just said it could have been we are not sure, How are they not sure, I am assuming they know that data was accesed but do not know whether it had been copied or whatever it is the hacker does, they know are other info has been obtained so how do they not know about the most important info, is cc info monitored less than user details.
Anyway hope this all blows over soon and the damage is minimal to both PSN users and Sony, I like to game and Sony have been making some great hardware and games for years now, i would like it to continue.
It's been a very hard generation for Sony after 2 gens of being king they have had some shit thrown there way this gen.
Is there any way for them to get at the hacker gangs instead...? I understand that they're anonymous, but there must be some way to trace them. This was kind of a big deal, you know? Sony is at least doing what they can to solve the issue now.
" Forgive my ignorance, but how is this any of Congress's business? "Congress was petitioned to investigate because when the banks have to process all the man hours for 70 million new credit cards to customers free of charge they are going to sue the pants off Sony.
" Sony didn't say 10 million credit card records were obtained. They said they have 10 million credit card number records in total out of 77 million PSN accounts. They still say there is no evidence they were actually accessed, that they were encrypted in any case and the banks aren't seeing PSN related fraudulent activity. They've always used the phrase "may have been exposed" which is essentially code for "we're positive they are safe but are warning people anyway". "May have been exposed is legalese for probably have been exposed. Run what I'm saying by any decent lawyer and you'll see I'm right. You should be spending more time informing yourself of the realities of identity theft and less time defending a company which has done you wrong.
I wonder if anybody from Congress actually has a PSN account? In the early days of Blu-ray, the PS3 was considered the best and less expensive player for a while. So some might have bought one and created any account for their kids or something. Maybe not, but ya know... maybe?
Fuck the US congress for wasting time on this issue. It ought to do something important, like reform the financial system, slash the military budget, or seriously address climate change. I repeat, fuck those bastards.Millons of people having their credit card information stolen is kind of a big deal.
I love that Patrick has joined Giant Bomb. This has become the most up-to-date videogame website around.
Their first question; when is PSN going to be back online?More direct question when can I play mortal kombat online again? I finally feel slightly confident in my skills maybe
" the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade"" Fuck the US congress for wasting time on this issue. It ought to do something important, like reform the financial system, slash the military budget, or seriously address climate change. I repeat, fuck those bastards. "
Oh fuck me a committee on commerce, manufacturing and trade addressing an issue that pertains to those three issues. Read the actual article next time you mongoloid.
" Fuck the US congress for wasting time on this issue. It ought to do something important, like reform the financial system, slash the military budget, or seriously address climate change. I repeat, fuck those bastards. "It's not like all of US Congress is on the issue. There are committees in Congress that overlook legislation before sending any bill to law; and, as the article states, the particular part of Congress looking at this issue is the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade. Right now, in those fields, there are few even similarly important issues happening right now. Just because the financial system needs work, climate needs to change, and the military is blown up in funds right now doesn't mean the rest of the issues suddenly cease to matter.
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