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vek
Australia936 Posts
On April 27 2011 22:05 hifriend wrote: How the hell did that happen? In what format do they store it? salt + md5? if that's true, they are so fucked lol Yeah it was all stored in plain text from what I read. | ||
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Zato-1
Chile4253 Posts
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Attican
Denmark531 Posts
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ChaseR
Norway1004 Posts
Although we are still investigating the details of this incident, we believe that an unauthorized person has obtained the following information One person hacked their database? This whole thing sounds like it will go down in video game history.This is why I personally hate any form of registration that wants you to use your real life information, I don't even use facebook because anyone can find your name and your information becomes a 'merchandise' for other companies. | ||
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Yurie
11882 Posts
Patrick Seybold // Sr. Director, Corporate Communications & Social Media While there is no evidence at this time that credit card data was taken, we cannot rule out the possibility. Which means it is probably wise to cancel the credit card if you have ever bought anything on the concerned Sony services. I personally have never bought anything from Sony online, but I still got a lot of information leaked. Going to have to change password at Sony as the minimum. | ||
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Rising_Phoenix
United States370 Posts
I feel safe knowing I always deleted my PSN info and payed through paypal instead of their site. | ||
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MilesTeg
France1271 Posts
On April 27 2011 21:33 Body_Shield wrote: The console might not recover from this, we could be seeing the death (or at least serious maiming) of a product. I've been using Sony platforms for 10 years but I seriously hope this happens. This is not OK, and they deserve it. Edit: Sorry old browser made me send it halfway through! | ||
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vek
Australia936 Posts
On April 27 2011 22:09 Zato-1 wrote: It doesn't say so in any of the links in the OP, but I've read in several other sites and my local papers saying the number of compromised user accounts sits at 77 million; added that to the OP. SBS news (probably the most respectable news program in Australia) reported "approximately 80 million accounts" had been compromised earlier tonight. So 77 million sounds about right. | ||
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Yurie
11882 Posts
On April 27 2011 22:10 ChaseR wrote: One person hacked their database? This whole thing sounds like it will go down in video game history. That phrase doesn't state if it was one person doing it or multiple. It states the minimum case of what it was. It might just as well have been a payed team from one of their competitors that broke their protection (one removed to have plausible deniability). | ||
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viii
United States266 Posts
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thehitman
1105 Posts
On April 27 2011 21:39 GTR wrote: massive class action lawsuit against sony incoming? I would bet on it. This is actually good news in a way as well, now it will force stricter laws for privacy and data protection. I hate facebook and the likes for it, as well as google, yahoo, psn, xbox, etc... for collecting privacy information. This needs to stop globally and hopefully this major screwup will force governments to bring in the iron fist and introduce some privacy protection laws and forbid all these crap companies from stealing and keeping private information against our will. | ||
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viii
United States266 Posts
On April 27 2011 22:10 Attican wrote: Pretty happy I got an Xbox 360 instead of PS3. Also the people in charge of PSN must be real idiots if they didn't do anything to protect all that private information. It'll be interesting to see how this works out for them. Im sure they did protect information, its not like you can click on someone and it will show your whole information, but come on it is a hacker, you cant blame Sony for this. | ||
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Zato-1
Chile4253 Posts
On April 27 2011 22:13 anonmice wrote: I havent read it the whole article yet, but with this what will happen to the stocks? I'm not a gambling man, but I'd be willing to bet good money on Sony stock prices falling, even if it's just because of some uninformed investors panicking and scrambling to sell. | ||
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nekuodah
England2409 Posts
On April 27 2011 22:15 anonmice wrote: Im sure they did protect information, its not like you can click on someone and it will show your whole information, but come on it is a hacker, you cant blame Sony for this. If its true they stored the information in plain text you damn well can blame them. | ||
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gruntrush
Canada134 Posts
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Zato-1
Chile4253 Posts
On April 27 2011 22:15 anonmice wrote: Im sure they did protect information, its not like you can click on someone and it will show your whole information, but come on it is a hacker, you cant blame Sony for this. People are faulting Sony for this because of the degree to which they went to protect information; there are standard and, in come countries, legally mandated minimum levels of security to use when storing such information, and apparently Sony didn't comply with those minimum security standards- the damage done (by the hackers, obviously) might have been significantly lower if Sony had taken security measures which really are pretty basic. | ||
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frontline
United States57 Posts
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maJes
United Kingdom186 Posts
On April 27 2011 22:19 gruntrush wrote: Was this an anon breach? Seems like too big a coincidence after they just declared war on sony. No, Anonymous already publicly denied this. Not to say it couldn't have been an anon, but officially it isn't. | ||
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nihlon
Sweden5581 Posts
On April 27 2011 22:14 thehitman wrote: I would bet on it. This is actually good news in a way as well, now it will force stricter laws for privacy and data protection. I hate facebook and the likes for it, as well as google, yahoo, psn, xbox, etc... for collecting privacy information. This needs to stop globally and hopefully this major screwup will force governments to bring in the iron fist and introduce some privacy protection laws and forbid all these crap companies from stealing and keeping private information against our will. Governments like if when they can easily get a hold of private information in the name of anti-piracy (not privacy) measures. If anything, governments are forcing companies to store more data than they want (happening here in Sweden). | ||
Kinky
United States4126 Posts
It's a conspiracy... | ||
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