Hackers Offer PSN Credit Cards For Sale
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And the incompetance of Sony, yes we dont know the details of how adavanced the hacker's system was and yes this happens every day on the internet. but how often does a large companie like Sony lose 77 million records including credit card information?MattAn24 said:
Sony does deserve some blame here and tbh they obviously didnt have apropiate protection especially as theyve admitted most of the information wasnt encrypted
The heck of it is that there's no way to tell for sure where a stolen credit card number came from. It's pretty darned likely that at least one of the 77,000,000 PSN subscribers had his credit card information stolen through some unrelated scam or something.EchetusXe said:
If we start seeing a rash of this, then that's different.
Unrelated: We know that there are "underground hacker forums" where people sell credit card info? Isn't there some way to track these people? (I honestly don't know if there is.)
luckily i changed my card and i share an psn acount so all the information is mismatched.
though im still unhappy about the leaks
though im still unhappy about the leaks
Tried to qute your reply to me Mattan24 but the forum isnt letting me so heres my reply
I understand that but its also Sonys fault for having poor security hey are a mega corp their defenses should be pretty absolute. As far as sueing the hackers sue em for what? if they had money they wouldn't be a bunch of thieves in the first place.
In reality I prolly wont get involved in it because so far I haven't lost anything and today at the bank I made sure that the likehood of thathappening will be minimal.
I understand that but its also Sonys fault for having poor security hey are a mega corp their defenses should be pretty absolute. As far as sueing the hackers sue em for what? if they had money they wouldn't be a bunch of thieves in the first place.
In reality I prolly wont get involved in it because so far I haven't lost anything and today at the bank I made sure that the likehood of thathappening will be minimal.
Yep. Because to my mind, that'd be too fast.CM156 said:
OT, I'm of two minds about this. On the one hand, I doubt the validity, since it's implying data was involved that, simply put, wasn't. I was never asked for my CVV, ergo, it stands to reason they could not HAVE my CVV to sell, and suggesting such implies they have no such data and in fact are likely lying out their asses.
On the other hand, I already canceled my card, started the ball rolling to get a new one, and have looked into reporting my info to the credit bureau. Better safe than sorry. Ironically, cause my email was hacked earlier this year, I already changed a ton of stuff around; as such, aside from the name, address, DOB stuff, nothing gotten in this hack actually can impact me.
I see no reason to believe this. For the people who say "i had something charged to my account", this could have happened from anything. A virus or something could have been undetected on your system and got your information, you really wouldn't know. I won't believe this article unless there is solid proof.
Because of a lot of speculation? People never seem to amaze me lol. This could have happened to anyone. Microsoft definitely isn't the best at security. Nobody has any reason to hack Nintendo. Hackers could get past bank security systems if they really knew what they were doing. As I said in another thread, if you know anything about Networking and Security, you know that NOTHING IS 100% SECURE!Grunt_Man11 said:
Actually it would be pretty dumb of sony to buy back a copy of the records of all the psn accounts when they already have said accounts on file (unless somehow the hackers deleted all of psn users account info from sony's own database). Whats stopping the hackers from simply selling the info again?tkioz said:
I don't know whether this is really true or not, and I really don't care.
Getting a new card, and not taking any chances.
Getting a new card, and not taking any chances.