PSN fail?

[zodas]

You get what you dont pay for.

[jest118]

Any hacker with the skills these hackers have could do this to most any system. It's not PSN's fault for it happening. It's just the same if someone robs your house. You can take every precaution and still get robbed. Sometimes shit just happens. If anything people should be happy that Sony has taken the time that they have to investigate this thoroughly, because they could've easily just said "it was no big deal" and put the PSN back online without trying to improve the security.

[Oddity]

Exactly jest, peeps just need to chill out.

Any hacker with the skills these hackers have could do this to most any system. It's not PSN's fault for it happening. It's just the same if someone robs your house. You can take every precaution and still get robbed. Sometimes shit just happens. If anything people should be happy that Sony has taken the time that they have to investigate this thoroughly, because they could've easily just said "it was no big deal" and put the PSN back online without trying to improve the security.

[Shaydee UK]

"It is also possible that your profile data, including purchase history and billing address (city, state, zip), and your PlayStation Network/Qriocity password security answers may have been obtained. If you have authorized a sub-account for your dependent, the same data with respect to your dependent may have been obtained," Sony announced. While the company claims that there is "no evidence" that credit card information has been compromised, it won't rule out the possibility.

Their advice is to be safe, rather than sorry. "If you have provided your credit card data through PlayStation Network or Qriocity, out of an abundance of caution we are advising you that your credit card number (excluding security code) and expiration date may have been obtained."
What can you do?

You are warned to keep watch over your accounts, and to be aware of your heightened risk of fraud due to the security breach. "For your security, we encourage you to be especially aware of e-mail, telephone, and postal mail scams that ask for personal or sensitive information," the company said. "Sony will not contact you in any way, including by email, asking for your credit card number, social security number or other personally identifiable information."


Watch your bank accounts!

[jest118]

The major thing to be aware of is the email, phone, and postal contacts asking for personal info. Credit Card fraud, against most citizens wouldn't be that profitable (at least here in the states... most families live paycheck to paycheck). Identity Fraud is much more profitable and much harder to recover from.

Another theory has arisen however.. though it's just a theory..

According to a self-proclaimed PSX-Scene moderator on Reddit, however, credit card numbers are involved but not necessarily in a way that users need to worry about.

Calling himself Chesh420, the moderator wrote that a new custom PS3 firmwave called Rebug was released on March 31. Rebug apparently turns standard PlayStation 3 consoles into semi-developer units, which among other things and with a little bit of effort allows hacked consoles to be put back online. But a few bright folks over at NextGenUpdate also figured out that because consoles with this firmware installed have access to Sony's private developer network, credit card information isn't checked for validity; in other words, they could gain unlimited download access with fake card numbers.

"What happened next was extreme piracy of PSN content," he wrote. "Sony, realizing the issue here, shut down the network. Now, before you go freaking out about the latest information posted about Kotaku, no one's personal information was accessible via this hack. Not to say they couldn't get it, but no one is admitting to it being available.

It's purely speculation at this point, although Chesh420 claimed that someone with official access to Sony's developer network stated that the company put out a warning today that only debug firmware versions 3.60 and newer will be allowed on the network from this point on. He also posted a four-part timeline backing up his story.

1.)Rebug was released on 3/31/11.
2.)First guides of how to use the dev network to get back on COD games on 4/3/11.
3.)Word of "shady" sites finding a way to pirate PSN content via the dev networks on 4/7/11 (basing this on posts I had to delete on the website).
4.)PSN goes down on 4/20/11"

[jerr bear]

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[Stevland]

the problem is not that PSN is down, the problem is that they took a fucking week to tell people that creditcard data may be stolen etc. that's fucking ridiculous.