Guess I better keep an eye on my account

Could also be opportunist scammers from nigeria... Can't be sure though.

I wish I could remember which card I used, all I know is that it ahould be expired.

I doubt it came from Nigeria unless someone is completely rouge and that type of person wouldn't be someone with a grudge against Sony. I'm thinking it came originally from either the US, or England/Europe.

I was thinking about something like this although it was more along the lines of putting x amount of dollars into your PSN account so you can go and buy whatever online. Kind of like what Riot does for lol when the servers are shut down for the day, they give you points and [censored].

I mean someone unrelated to the haxking looking for money...
Like ransom demands from morw than one party.

I was originally against giving compensation but I definitely have changed my mind within the last 12 hours. Sony is going to have a field day trying to repay everybody although part of that is Sony's fault for not having a great security system.

I hope that is just what it is as well, but I'm going to be keeping a close eye on my account from this point onward regardless. And regardless of the outcome, I'm not paying for anything on PSN with anything other than a prepaid card anymore.

No point for me when their prices for newer games are higher than used for the first decade.

I already own the original psx games.

Meh, the only reason I ever used PSN was so I could get my nostalgia fix on the go with my PSP (ah, Spyro... I miss the days when your games were actually good).

Never thought it might cost me a lot more than 10-15 bucks though : /

I think amazon sells download codes for games not sure if they do psx classics

uhmm...


from the same article:


These people saying they have the data are lieing.

Interesting read about the dev network. it wouldn't surprise me if no data was even taken and this is all because of some SOB figuring out how to provide fake CC info.

They also mention they have our e-mail add passwords. How in the world could they?

do you mean for the PSN? well, if it was "hacked", I thought any data we entered was stored and could be obtained. including sign-in e-mail and password. but if it really was this dev network and PS store content piracy then I think we have nothing to worry about.

Homeland Security has joined the FBI in investigating the breach.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6310929.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=topstory&tag=topstory%3Btitle

Law enforcement agencies are already looking into the PlayStation Network outage and data breach. Now the Department of Homeland Security is joining the investigation, according to a report on NextGov, a site dedicated to covering the intersection of technology and government.

Homeland Security considers the Sony outage a serious matter.

"The Department of Homeland Security is aware of the recent cyber intrusion to Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity music service," DHS spokesman Chris Ortman told the site. "DHS' US Computer Emergency Readiness Team [CERT] is working with law enforcement, international partners, and Sony to assess the situation."

CERT is a subagency dedicated to helping companies that are the subject to cyberattacks evaluate their vulnerabilities and then recommend steps to remedy them. The goal is to take the lessons learned from the attacks and then offer them to other government agencies and private companies to promote overall cybersecurity.

"We're all in this together," said Patrick Burke, a senior vice president in the national security sector at SRA International, a DHS contractor. "We all need to understand that. There's an adversary that we're trying to defeat."

NextGov also re-confirmed that the FBI is helping Sony track down the hackers whose attack has kept the PSN down for a ninth day. "The FBI is aware of the reports concerning the alleged intrusion into the Sony online game server and we have been in contact with Sony concerning this matter," FBI Special Agent Darrell Foxworth said in a statement. "We are presently reviewing the available information in an effort to determine the facts and circumstances concerning this alleged criminal activity."

Anyone with additional knowledge of the PSN hack should call the FBI at (858) 565-1255 or file a report online via the Internet Crime Complaint Center.

That's both troubling (how serious the matter is) and comforting (I hope those hackers get what's coming to them.).

I'm surprised no one on this thread has cast blame on Anonymous. It seems to be happening everywhere else. The reasons that wouldn't be likely though is because

1. Anonymous is a leaderless organization. There's no memberlist, that's the point. What good is financial information to them?
2. They LOVE taking responsibility for stuff. Why wouldn't they take responsibility for one of the biggest online capers ever?
3. Anonymous, despite their successes, aren't actually a skilled group of hacker elite. There's some like that, but they normally do DDoS attacks. 10,000 chimpanzees with keyboards could do a DDoS attack.

I just don't understand how Sony's security was so lax that they could just waltz on in. There's already a petition for a class-action lawsuit, but those never actually amount to much for individuals.

The good news here is that the 3-digit security codes weren't taken along with the credit card numbers, but there are a lot of places that don't ask for that.

Anon (or someone claiming to be affiliated with Anon) did claim responsibility when the incident was made public. The video has been removed.

No, they had a screenshot on another website where said person with the 2.2 million accounts info mentioned he had account name, password, e-mail passwords, and various other stuff. Which is somewhat ridiculous.

Well that's not good for PS3 users but that does means the hackers will finally get what's coming to them which is the real problem.

No, the real problem was sony's insecure network. This was *their* fault, and the majority of the investigation is going to be investigating them, and how they allowed this to happen.

Correct me if I'm wrong:

Sony removed Linux, this triggered Geohot to hack and spread the key, this triggered a lot of other hackers with more malicious intentions to do what they have done?

This might be a little narrowminded, but if I'm not entirely incorrect, it sounds like Sony started the whole situation, thus they only have themselves to blame.

That is very, very, very narrow minded.

I wouldn't say that's correct. Sony does have some fault in this but who hacked them and caused this whole mess in the 1st place.



Sony didn't start the problem the hackers did. All the hackers could've done is say "yeah it svcks we'll just have to deal with it" but they didn't do that. The Hackers threw oil onto a fire that was originally started by other hackers not happy at Sony. The only thing Sony's at fault for is their lack of a good security system.

What triggered the removal of Linux in the first place was that people used it as means to run non-certified and shady software on the PS3, to develop tools which enabled use of pirated games, cheats and hacks and even direct trophy unlocking. And that is just because those were fun busting idiots and criminals, not because of idealist freedom of information and such or because Sony did wrong them before.

It doesn't matter. Network security is *your* problem, nobody else's, and that's ten times more true if you're dealing with confidential information. This isn't about something as trivial as a video games network, data security is an important issue, and if you screw it up you don't get to say "Yeah, well, if we'd never have been hacked it wouldn't have happened!". The fault lies with Sony. That they were hacked by a third party is incidental, at the end of the day, they still screwed up, and they can't handwave that.