Okay, but how are they going to compensate the customers for losing their personal information? Oh, they won't? Nice going Sony!
PSN Phasing Back Into Existence With Enhanced Security
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The estimated cost of $300 per compromised record includes the cost of in-house investigations and communication, detection, escalation, notification, engaging forensic experts, outsourced hotline support, free credit monitoring subscriptions, discounts for future products and services, etc., etc., etc.RelexCryo said:
I'm willing to assume that of the $300, only a small fraction of it is attributable to the cost of discounted products and services. The entire $300 can't be used to value discounted products and services. If you do use that $300 "budget" entirely on discounted products and services, then there's nothing left over for all the other costs associated with a compromised record.
Ultimately, it's still going to run away with Biggest Gaming Screwup 2011, hands down. It also should severely damage Sony's PlayStation brand (deservedly for failing to encrypt the personal data in question.)
Was it not newsworthy that this recent information was made available at a live press conference by Sony's No. 2, Kazuo Hirai, in person? The OP's article reads as if it was from nothing more than a press release and, in so doing, fails to give Sony any credit for sending it's No. 2 out to personally meet the press.
Wait, so they're getting Playstation Home back up before the Playstation Store? I'm sure all the developers and publishers who are really hurting will appreciate Sony's list of priorities as much as I do: not at all.
Your personal data is not fine, have you not been paying attention for the past 11 days? Sony has confirmed again and again that they DID get your name, address, e-mail, and password. The only thing they may not have gotten is the credit card info, but that's been neither confirmed or denied. Maybe you should bone up on the facts here before you accuse other people of not having half a brain.Sapient Pearwood said:
No. Why should that make a difference? Text press release VS in-person press release with some members of the press that the rest of us read in text anyway... Nope, doesn't make a difference. Press release is a press release man.JDKJ said:
After about a year or so of removing advertised features, suing the wrong people, Jack Tretton saying I have no self respect because I also happen to enjoy Nintendo products as well, and now the way they've mishandled this, these are my sentiments exactly.Samurai Goomba said:
I was being a little sarcastic, considering that a free videogame does not compare to having one's identity stolen. Sorry if it didn't read.RelexCryo said:
Because after close to two weeks of running with rumor, innuendo, half-truths, and plain misstatements of the actual facts, I would have thought that the Escapist would have relished an opportunity to report on an actual fact rather than to have glossed it over.mjc0961 said:
Only good could have come from the event. Sony are (hopefully) now more weary and will have cyborg-saiyan dobermans guarding our data.
Yeah I know, I think the address on my PSN is my old Toronto one.RipperSU said:
OT: everyone knew that Sony would give us stuff for this, isn't really all that unseen. But still as long as I can download Rayman within the month I'll be content for a while, and quoting what someone said earlier "people are going to forget this just like the BP oil spill."
Ooo free stuff?
I'm not usually one to give in to paranoia but I decided to cancel my card a couple of days ago when I heard that the information is possibly being sold on. So the most they can possibly use now is my name and address, so good luck with that hackers, at least my money's safe. I think my bank has the best security around anyway, even I have trouble getting MY OWN money!
As for Sony, you lot suck. I raved about the PS3 when I got one a few months ago after about 4 years of Microsoft's useless machine. At least the big M never compromised my data. I shall not be putting my bank details to my PSN account again that's for sure. This does not make me trust you.
I'm not usually one to give in to paranoia but I decided to cancel my card a couple of days ago when I heard that the information is possibly being sold on. So the most they can possibly use now is my name and address, so good luck with that hackers, at least my money's safe. I think my bank has the best security around anyway, even I have trouble getting MY OWN money!
As for Sony, you lot suck. I raved about the PS3 when I got one a few months ago after about 4 years of Microsoft's useless machine. At least the big M never compromised my data. I shall not be putting my bank details to my PSN account again that's for sure. This does not make me trust you.
Do you understand who failOverflow are and their conduct in relation to Sony and their relationship to Sony? You really expect Sony to take what a group of hackers who were (and I believe that some individual members still are) defendants in a lawsuit brought by Sony? That's like taking home security advice from the guy who just broke into your house and stole your flat-screen television. Not that the advice isn't credible. Just that the source isn't. I'm not gonna be the one heard to say, "Yeah, the guy that I'm suing just told me . . . and I'm taking his word for it."Thedek said: