I've been breached, and I'm not sure how I feel about it.
By coreymw 30 Comments
The fact that Sony held out on PSN members for so long about the breach of security worries me. If there was even a remote possibility that our card information was at risk, they should have mentioned it. This brings up trust issues. Who will ever be able to trust them again? What are they going to have to do or offer in order to win people over? A free year of PSN+? Is there anything that could possibly win people back?
The jokes floating around the internet right now about Sony's inability to safeguard our information are funny, but at the same time not. There are something like 60 million users on that service who all just suffered a security breach. This should raise some questions moving forward about how organizations conduct online business, especially in the gaming industry. Should we go to a cloud system? Are the security risks worth the payoff?
Of course, where would we be without taking risks? My guess is not far. Obviously we don't know the specifics of the breach, but we know it's serious. It should force us and those companies offering online services to take a step back and think about how we conduct ourselves. Maybe it is time for a new set of security standards.