On PSN

By YoSoyJu May 2, 2011 10 Comments

Let me start this off by saying that I have no idea if my credit card was even on my PSN account. I created it a year and a half ago and haven't purchased any digital content from them. That being said, it is irrelevant to the fact that I am not happy regardless.

10 Million. That's how many credit card numbers were stolen from PSN between April 17th and April 19th. That is just ridiculous. It's hard for me to even fathom how something like this could happen. How could a global company allow this to happen? It seems to me that Sony put too much effort into the security between the user and the machine that they felt confident that nothing could happen between the machine and the network.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not blaming Sony for everything here; I'm not one to blame the victim (Good Advice:  She's never asking for it.). But I have to say that if the case is lack of security and corporate negligence that I for one am appalled. We live in an age where giving out your information online is commonplace. Hopefully you are smart enough to vet who you give that info to. But this isn't some website with animated gifs of dollar signs and mountains of text. Sony is someone I trusted, and I feel that trust has been broken. Sure, it was broken because some asshole with a god complex wanted to fight the "man," but it was broken nonetheless.

Now Sony has announced their mea culpa:  30 days of PS+ and a regional gift of (for now) indeterminate value. This makes a good start at rebuilding that bridge of trust once more, but all I can say is that better be one hell of a gift!

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