Sony Admits Private PSN Info Has Been Stolen - All Of It

[Pyrokinesis]

I do.

Do you still support the police even though a few brutalize citizens?
Do you still support the military even though a few murder civilians?

Any group big enough will have bad cells. I'm still grappling with some of that myself as I am very distrustful of the plice because of those few bad ones. But even I acknowledge that they're not all bad, and neither are hackers.

You... Get a gold star. That is just about the smartest thing I have heard in this thread.

OT;
Clean it up. Due to Sony?s terrible security system and a series of bad decisions they were attacked by a(some) criminal(s), who happen to be hackers, who stole a lot of PSN user information.

Well good luck sony and PSN users. I hope this gets cleared up. But please learn how to direct your anger.

First quote: Seconded as being very smart

Second quote: Not so much. If you are familar with Anon's work its not usually malicious. Anon is large and it (of course) has bad splinters. This splinter on the other hand is out for some vengeance on (obviously directed only at...) sony for not only the recent lawsuits but their long term nature of pissing people off with its anti-piracy works that make normal paying players suffer. This isnt the work of Full anon. They havent been united since their attack on Scientology. But splinters will always act in their place. Anon is know for class S hackers or better. So its not surprising that sony had something coming when they mess with Anon or anything they stand for.




Anon isnt out for your bank account, Anon isnt out for your doorstep, This anon is out for sony. Sony is trying to turn you against him by misleading you by saying things were "compromised" or "may have been stolen". It dosent take 6 days to figure out data was downloaded, it takes 6 days to make it LOOK like the same person may have had the potential too.

 

[Reed Spacer]

Oh someone is so getting sued for this.

 

[Fusioncode9]

This just went from a minor inconvenience to pretty serious problem. Better go change my card, email, and password. I'm blaming you Geohotz or whatever your name is, for starting all this. And the hackers too. And Sony for WAITING A WEEK TO TELL US!

 

[MattAn24]

Let's see the timeline

1st: Sony sues Geohotz and everyone goes against Sony
2nd: Anon attacks Sony and everyone goes against Anon
3rd: Geo drops out and Anon tries one last ditch effort to feel like they mean something in this fight no one likes anyone
4th: PSN goes down everyone hates Sony and Anon
5th PSN stays down and Anons all like "we did nothing bro!" everyone hates Sony
6th: everyone get's their stuff stolen off of PSN and we go back to everyone hates both sides in the fight

point is if we can put music on a compact disc....

Actually...
6th: Stuff stolen
7th: Sony plays dead for a few days
8th: Sony comes clean about what went down
9th: Somehow there's people defending Sony

Um.. I'm guessing you don't follow PlayStationEU or Playstation on Twitter? I have seen many updates from them mentioning the work they're doing, they didn't KNOW what was taken or HOW. They weren't "playing dead". Hell, they updated even when there wasn't anything to update. It was the Easter holidays. I'm guessing the entire security team/PSN staff were working overtime, away from their own families. Shit like this doesn't just happen. There are "hackers" and there are butt-hurt assholes looking for trouble, with no care for ANYONE.

Seriously, if anyone's blaming Sony for this, you're a fucking idiot. Especially if your PSN details were leaked. Sony didn't leak them, hackers done hacked it, yo.

 

[Kikyoo]

I find it hard to be surprised by this ever since the PSP turned out to be a pirates dream machine. But whatever. Time to go over ye list of trying to clean up the mess this makes for me, witch is relatively small for me, but could be bigger for people I know.

It's really no wonder so many people are trying to move off of the play station these days.

 

[teebeeohh]

so maybe i am just a little too hacker friendly but isn't it still entirely possible they will just print all this information in binary and send it so sony to remind people that a big company will no keep their data save

 

[Theseus32]

Well this sucks...whoever got in went in looking for either free info, or really had a grudge against Sony.

This, in my mind, puts Anon in a better situation to be believed when they say "we didn't do it." Yes, it could be a rouge Anon group, but really, anyone not working w/ them is also part of them. They are everyone on the internet. But I would assume that this wasn't them, because why would Anonymous, who thrive on being Anon, go after information to people's identities, and the identitys of the people they look to fight for. They fight for the right to Anonymity and free speech. Cracking into PSN and taking it down serves no real point.

Whoever took down PSN wasn't looking for free speech writing if they're looking at people's identities and other things. Hopefully it goes up...hell of a time for PSN to get hit

Umm... you don't know us very well, do you? The reasons this has the hallmarks of an anon hack have nothing to do with the skill involved or the data taken. And it's not in any conflict with anon's ideologies, because anon doesn't have any ideologies. The reason this looks like anon is because this, frankly, is goddamned hilarious. And anon will do anything for the lulz. Sony raped silly left by the side of a road to bleed out, the public in a panic, a shitstorm of truly epic proportions... If this wasn't anon it was simply because no one thought of doing it yet.

Anon's fine with playing the good guy, because ushering in the middle eastern revolutions, defending wiki-leaks, making corporate america go all brown-trousered over nothing... that was also hilarious. So yeah, frankly I HOPE this is anon, because that will at least mean that it was meant as a statement rather than an attempt to steal data for profit. Keep in mind the same shit happened with mastercard.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Thank God for prepaid cards! Seriously, THANK FUCKING CHRIST!!!

I'll be making a new PSN account when it's finally up to snuff. Maybe I'll go by Actual Shinji this time.

Looks like hackers have a new motto; Fight the power!...And let's swipe everyone's personal shit while we're at it!

 

[Kakashi on crack]

This is hilarious. Makes me glad I faked almost all my information for my PSN account that I used maybe, once.

I'll have to keep an eye on things anyways, but this is just hilarious lol

 

[badgersprite]

Well, shit. :/

*sigh* Be right back. Cancelling credit cards.

 

[Delock]

If Anonymous isn't involved, one hopes they'll be the ones going after whoever did this now (given that this probably affects them as well). If so, it would be some of the best poetic justice in hacking that I've seen in a long time.

Also, Sony, while I'm not going to toss my PS3 out the window for this, I'm horribly ashamed with this. Not only the fact that you didn't hold up your end of the ToS involving the Privacy Policy, but that you waited a week to tell us just astonishes me. You deserve the stock damage you're about to take.

 

[TemplateResponse]

So, Sony's stock'll be okay, right?

Err... yeah. [http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/sne]

Holy SHIT that's a drop!

 

[icame]

How the hell does such a huge corporation manage to have such shit security? I love my Ps3. I Like it a heck of a lot more then my Xbox, but I will be buying all non-exclusives on it from now on. I refuse to hand over all my money for gaming to a company that lets this kind of thing happen.

 

[ShadowKatt]

I do.

Do you still support the police even though a few brutalize citizens?
Do you still support the military even though a few murder civilians?

Any group big enough will have bad cells. I'm still grappling with some of that myself as I am very distrustful of the plice because of those few bad ones. But even I acknowledge that they're not all bad, and neither are hackers.

You... Get a gold star. That is just about the smartest thing I have heard in this thread.

OT;
Clean it up. Due to Sony?s terrible security system and a series of bad decisions they were attacked by a(some) criminal(s), who happen to be hackers, who stole a lot of PSN user information.

Well good luck sony and PSN users. I hope this gets cleared up. But please learn how to direct your anger.

I've never had a gold star before...

I'm gonna put it on my frigidator!

 

[Chuck Hamilton]

Wow. The sheer number of comments bashing/blaming Sony for this instead of point the blame at the hackers where it rightfully belongs is mind-boggling.

 

[skorpion352]

so that letter that sony posted has me confused. is it only sony america's psn that got compromised, or was the worldwide psn compromised? because im in new zealand and from what i understand, its not sony america that has my data, its sony europe

 

[SlasherX]

Incompetence is the word to describe this, that being completely unsecured network with very little support because they offered if for free for a good while and aren't made of money. Oh how I love my Microsoft owned company, that is more secure and has better help. Now lets watch some PS3 fanboy scream at me while he cries over his new timeshare in Alaska.

 

[Gaiseric]

In the words of the great Dr. Sam Beckett "Oh, boy!"