Is this how Mad Max started?  Australian hackers ruining the national infrastructure?

Identity theft is not possible in this situation since the PSN does not use social security numbers. The most is credit/debit card fraud.

Sony fumbled this big time. What a fucking joke.

I'm glad Sony is getting sued. This shouldn't have happened.

checked with my credit card associated with PSN today and nothing was touched, so im not canceling it tbh. Ill se what happens. Canceling cards is a fucking hassle here.

Funny sidenote tho, when i called them, i asked to check my latest movements to see if there was anything unusual, and the lady goes:

"well sir, there seems to be a unusual ammount of transactions the last few months to a steamstore?" to which i go "yeah...thats normal" :P

Good thing the CC that I used for PSN was an old one that's no longer tied to my current account.

90 millions fake identities seem like the biggest identity theft event ever conducted.

" I like how some people feel that because Xbox live charges a yearly fee that it some how makes it hacker proof.  This can happen to any company people and not just because its a free service.  "

"  Krisopher Johns of Alabama, I don't know you, but you're a Grade A douche nozzle. "

Canceled my card just in case.  I had my number stolen a few months ago, and even though the situation was fixed within a few hours of discovering the problem, I'd rather not have to go through that again if I can help it.

My e-mail was hacked on monday and sent out a bunch of spam to my contact list. It may or may not have been related but it's a bit of a coincidence in my eyes.

My email was hacked today, sent out a shit ton of spam emails to my contacts. I assume it was due to the hack. But I suppose that's what I get for using the same password on everything. :/

Damn. Could this be the end for Sony in the console market? With the way they've been treated after making their platform nice and open and friendly only for the hackers to piss on their own cake and ruin it all. This is why we can't have nice things.

77 million credit cards charged all at once would make for a real life Eve-Online scenario.

All I know is I got the debit card I used for PlayStation Network replaced.

OMG H4X!

As a precaution, I chose to close my credit card account today and be issued a new number.  It's a hassle, but it's better than the possibility that someone was able to get their hands on it through this leak.

As bummed as I am about this PSN situation, both for the thievery of my information and my inability to play MK online, I am so stoked that Klepek is around to give us the shit and do some digging. 

We've been getting some quality journalism up in this bitch since he signed on. Gives the rest of the crew more time to handle the quick looks and other non-news content while we get some legit newsings. 

everyone wins....well, everyone who didn't have a card attached to their PSN account. 

The whole internet has been acting funny the last week. I can't access my email and I don't even have a PSN account. Tried to pay my Dell bill online and it's down. Crazy. First Whiskey Media goes down and then my internet goes down, not related, but damn. What the hell is going on?

Sony can't catch a break, lately... yeesh...

I guess NOW I'm glad that I don't have a PS3

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                    I love that Giant Bomb has Patrick to cover this, great, informative articles and it's straight from GBHQ rather than elsewhere. Top Stuff Top Men!

                   

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" All I know is I got the debit card I used for PlayStation Network replaced. "

" I'm glad Sony is getting sued. This shouldn't have happened. "

" Sony fumbled this big time. What a fucking joke. "

That's some damn good journalism.

Thank you Patrick, great coverage.!!

I've never bought anything through PSN so my credit card info is fine, but I guess they have my name and email. I don't remember if I had to put an address when I signed up.

Really hope no one suffers too bad from this and really hoping that Sony will recover and this can be resolved quickly. I'm starting to get worried, you hackers fucking suck.

What if these dude just charge 2 dollars out of all the accounts, insignificant amount for each account but the whole $154 md. 

" @Kowalski said:

" This is why I never have used my credit card on the PSN, only vouchers. "

In case someone hacks the PSN and steals 775 million peoples information?

This was completely unpredictable. No one, not even you could have known this was going to happen.

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" As a precaution, I chose to close my credit card account today and be issued a new number.  It's a hassle, but it's better than the possibility that someone was able to get their hands on it through this leak. "

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I love these in-depth articles Patrick produces for this site!

LOVE IT!

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Great story Patrick! These in depth articles are exactly what Giant Bomb was falling short on before.

Someone from ohio tried to log into my facebook account this morning. I had the same e-mail and password as my PSN account. BE WARNED!

So I am worried, Is my email account compromised? Because that has everything linked to it.

Are passwords and such possibly  known?

" @Hailinel said:

" As a precaution, I chose to close my credit card account today and be issued a new number.  It's a hassle, but it's better than the possibility that someone was able to get their hands on it through this leak. "

Why would you close the account? Just request a new card and for the previous to be voided. Closing the account entirely hurts your credit score.

I personally got my debit card voided and got a new one. No hassle, took 3 minutes on the phone.

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Great thorough coverage, Mr. Klepek.  Giant Bomb is now more than my favorite entertainment site, it will be my go-to for videogame news.  Suck it, Destructoid.

BRB, changing my email passwords again!

ahh, this is really annoying

I just got a lovely e-mail from Sony basically telling me to panic. Great. Has anyone else received anything from them?

Welp. This really sucks. What do we know about the level of security that was protecting this information in the first place? They were hacked, but does that mean Sony had poor security in place? I know people are spinning this into a case of incompetence on Sony's part, but is there any evidence to suggest that's actually the case? Or is the mere fact that there was a successful hack enough evidence itself?

I'd like to think that Sony would be a name you could trust to keep information safe, just as I would other reputable companies I've entrusted such information to. Is that foolish of me? If so, what makes other places that store my personal information more trustworthy?

Basically, do we actually know anything about how much Sony are at fault here? Is this just a simple case of the sort of risk you run providing your information to any online service or was this a case of particular incompetence and misplaced trust?

" This is why I never have used my credit card on the PSN, only vouchers. "

Who else read "77 million" as well...you know.

It was just a week ago I looked at my PlayStation Plus account and was able to admit that Sony and Microsoft are finally on par.

Well I just changed my passwords to pretty much every site that needs one and canceled my card. So my mind is a little more at ease. 

"Organized crime"?  You mean the Russian mafia or the Yakuza hacked PSN?  I don't remember that in any GTA game. 

CRAP.

I cancelled my bank card this morning as a precaution. I think vouchers may be the way forward at this point if I purchase stuff from PSN again.

Here's hoping that they can fix this soon.