Is there any chance this could be the result of Portal 2 being the first steamworks game ever in consoles? Intriguing.

No. It also wasn't the result of a full moon, or the alignment of the planets.
(And if it had have been, it would still have been an issue with PSN - no third party service should have enough access to compromise it, ever)

They will be hardpressed stealing money from me. The CC info on my account is expired. I haven't been on PSN for about 2 years.

:ermm: Guilty as charged. But i already changed them all, too late for them to hijack my Steam account :hehe:

Some service is better than none, I suppose.

The Wall Street Journal had an article about how this incident might hamper Sony's master plan of creating a network. It wasn't a terribly interesting read until I came across the motivation for this whole user network (download/stream music, games, tv; make purchases via PSN): to escape price competition. And I thought: you know what, that's actually kind of scary. Retail and online typically have price competition for a lot of stuff. But if PSN is the sole provider, it can dictate the price and the consumer has no alternative. Food for thought, hmm?

EDIT: example. I can go get a physical copy of game X. At Amazon it is $20, at Gamestop it's $24 at Newegg it's $22, at Wallmart it's $19. But if I have to download the game, the only way to get it to my PS3 is to buy it via the PSN. And what if they keep it at or close to the release price, say $40?

Isn't that the point of Digital download

A lot of users seem to like Steam and digital because it is a more convenient form of storage (on harddrive, not on discs that get scratched, lost, take up space). I don't think an advantage would be price-setting that is immune/detached/resistant to the effects of demand (supply not being an issue).

But no competition on consoles.

There's some competition in the PC digital market though.

It would be nice to see steam on the PS3 with their 50-75% off major titles sales... Instead of having to wait until the next console is released for a price break with just PSN.

If http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft is the provider of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows, they can dictate the price of the OS and the consumer who wants to play video games on a PC has no alternative. Food for thought? No - just more of the old and hundred-times-seen-before crap.

I've read rumors about the compromised data being on sale on the internet. I hope everyone has renewed their credit cards.

I got the "Your info got hacked" email.

Fortunately, the credit card I had on file was cancelled last month. Unfortunately, there's still plenty of person info on PSN that could make life uncomfortable for me.

I wonder if PSN recently inked a deal with Lifelock... :whisper: :ahhh:

So, I've overheard the news yesterday that Sony is now talking about electronic and physical barriers having been broken. So I guess that really means that they had a mole in their midst. Sad world, really.

Sony is discussing ways to compensate PSN members. Maybe a free game download?

Which is good news for us, because it most likely means that whoever did this was out to hurt the company and hopefully didn't bother to go as far as to break into the encrypted CC data.

Who knows. The mind of criminals can be strange. Somebody was posting around shady forums, according to a security person during a radio news report I just heard, claiming to have access to "the" 2,2 million entries from the PSN "they" stole. Both good and bad news. Good that it's so few, bad that it's really been done - if it's actually true.

Yeah ok, that will be a crap game that nobody wants. Sorry, we're talking possible millions of dollars/livelihoods lost. A single game will not wipe tears.

Lice ridden blankets or FFVII free download?

Free credit reports are useless when you are supposedly entitled to one every year.

How is any form of criminal behavior a good thing, not to mention that the whole network is down right now.

Sorry to double post but

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/04/29/did-sony-shut-down-psn-to-combat-piracy.aspx

If that's true then another oil barrel has been thrown onto the fire.

I meant a voucher for a free game download. Any game, not a game chosen by Sony.

Whoa, that is very frightening.

At least Sony shut it off early enough so that it's "only" 3 percent of the whole database. My, I really do hope they bloody learn from their mistakes this time around. Should have hammered it into their head like a Norse god.