Just because there's 70 million accounts, does not mean there are 70 million customers. Also, just because the servers might come back up, doesn't mean they'll stay up either. Sony's gotten a lot of heat these past few months,don't expect it to die down is PSN comes back. It seems every time Sony confronts a hacker, more come to replace him. The more they confront, the larger the pool gets. Judging by their approach, this pool will get a lot bigger.
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I've potentially had my personal details leaked to criminals. All I had to do was get given an old PSP from my sister and register on the PSN network. not to mention my password (which I don't think I can even remember) has been compromised.
Others are fearing they have lost their credit card information to the same criminals.
Sony, meanwhile, have probably only lost some stock and a few thousand customers.
Just because there's 70 million accounts, does not mean there are 70 million customers. Also, just because the servers might come back up, doesn't mean they'll stay up either. Sony's gotten a lot of heat these past few months,don't expect it to die down is PSN comes back. It seems every time Sony confronts a hacker, more come to replace him. The more they confront, the larger the pool gets. Judging by their approach, this pool will get a lot bigger.
Look, we get it. You're anti corporate. And anti corporates are not going to understand how corporations work, ever - it's that fear of the unknown thing.
But here's a hint. Corporations rather like the idea of having 70 million accounts to sell stuff too. PSN is coming back up. And corporations don't like bad PR. Security will be better.
Not every hacker attack is catastrophic. You don't think Microsoft is attacked on a daily basis? I know for a fact (having actual business relationships with Microsoft), that it is. But it's secure enough. And the PSN will be secure as well.
edhe - from what I'm seeing first hand (as opposed to reading in the 'press' by clueless hacks pretending to be games journalists), you should be ok. You need to be somewhat careful not to give 'Sony' your credit card detail when 'Sony' emails you asking for it, but that's about it (if that even happens).
If you are really worried, cancel your credit card. That in itself is actually not hard work - took me 30 minutes to do both, and you'll be back to being as secure as you're ever going to be (which is, frankly, not very, Sony attack or otherwise).
Honestly, you have to be either 1) really, really unlucky, or 2) stupid, to get affected by a hacker attack, even one on the scale of Sony. Just learn to ignore the 'press' - most of them have no clue how to report a story properly in the first place.
edhe - from what I'm seeing first hand (as opposed to reading in the 'press' by clueless hacks pretending to be games journalists), you should be ok. You need to be somewhat careful not to give 'Sony' your credit card detail when 'Sony' emails you asking for it, but that's about it (if that even happens).
If you are really worried, cancel your credit card. That in itself is actually not hard work - took me 30 minutes to do both, and you'll be back to being as secure as you're ever going to be (which is, frankly, not very, Sony attack or otherwise).
Fortunately, I never got round to making a purchase on the PSN. I was merely responding to TheColorsOfSonic's apparent glee that PSN has been hacked.
But I do have some queries.
Say if my password is in the hands of someone else - how does that directly endanger my other accounts on the web - how are the hackers able to find what websites I'm a member of?
And secondly, I read on the NeoGAF forums a claim that a criminal with your personal details could apply for credit in your name. Is this true?
Nevertheless, my main worry is having to change passwords (I have a clutch of passwords and I can't remember exactly which one I used for the PSN.
@edhe: you'd be surprised how many people use one username (or a similar username) and password across multiple websites. idk what's involved in a PSN account, but if someone gave them an outside e-mail address (for verification or something) or if they were able to get their e-mail address from one of those same-username website accounts and (god forbid) that person was silly enough to use the same password for their e-mail address as their PSN account, they are potentially super-screwed, y'know?
as for the second question, to apply for credit (in the US anyway), most places will require a SSN and leave it at that, but others will allow individuals to apply if they've got proof of residency and multiple photo IDs (passport, drivers' license/state ID, military ID, etc. and so forth). to be absolutely technical about it, though, there is no state or federal law requiring them to get a SSN from every applicant, and it's a felony in the US to use threat, duress, or coercion to try and force a person by fear or deceit to provide a SSN. they'd have to do their homework to dig up the correct line of laws and prepare to go that far with it, but yes, if you're in the US (which i know you're not, but others here are and should be aware of this) they could indeed apply for credit in your name if they had your information.
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And secondly, I read on the NeoGAF forums a claim that a criminal with your personal details could apply for credit in your name. Is this true?
It's possible, as TBD mentioned above. I'm not aware of how specifics work in the US, but they seem similar to Australia. You'd have to be really, really unlucky for events to unfold that someone could apply for a loan in your name, get away with it, and leave you unable to demonstrate that you've been a victim, though.
This is bad guys. Apparently the FBI and Department of Homeland Security are now involved due to reports of a list of 2.2 Million credit card numbers being put up for sale, acquired via the attacks. Read the (2 page) article for more. Needless to say, if true then this is a very worrying development
Sony bringing friends lists, chat, account management and online play back up in the coming week.
They are also running out their welcome home program, which includes selected free PlayStation entertainment content and to all current members PS+ for 30 days.
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In a way the hackers actually did us a favor. Now Sony will take security more seriously and reward us for our patience.
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I am sure that those people who had their credit card numbers stolen dont see it that way.
I am sure if credit card details were taken we'd see some actual proof of it by now (and no, isolated people whining =/= proof. It doesn't take a data security breach at Sony to have your credit card details stolen, and from what I've read of people claiming their card numbers were stolen... they're typically stupid enough that a hundred people probably have access to those details).
There's plenty of security analysts out there that believe it's just as likely that nothing of real worth was stolen.
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