Sony Attacked Again

[Xaio30]

Damn, if this keeps up, Sony will become the new Madagascar!

Ahh, the bittersweet memories of failure.

Spoiler: The president sure was paranoid.

 

[Xman490]

At least the problem was fixed before it got really bad. I just hope that Sony will have Playstation Network and PS3s around and relatively unhackable by the time I get one for when I get one when I get a job somewhere and live in an apartment (as in late 2014/ early 2015).

 

[Thetwistedendgame]

They where waiting with a Team Rocket like pitfall trap. Nice reflexes Sony.

 

[ParadoxHunter]

I wonder who it was this time. Anonymous claimed it was them who did it last time, and to be honest, I believe them. After all, surely anybody who does that sort of thing is automatically a part of Anonymous?

But, chances are, it's just some doubting Thomas who is convinced that PSN's security hasn't changed a bit, and that they spent two months sitting on their arses doing nothing. Nice to see that we as a species have kept our intelligence over the years...

 

[Pendragon9]

Good to see they learned from last time.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Sony can't catch a damn break can they?

At least they acted quickly this time before it could get any worse. I wonder who decided to do it this time?

 

[Evrant-Knight]

Damn, if this keeps up, Sony will become the new Madagascar!

Is this a reference to the flash game Pandemic 2, whereby once a fair amount of the world got infected by the disease you create, Madagascar would instantly close all its borders and shut everything down.

 

[Toar]

But why does this have to happen?

 

[redisforever]

Well, they're dealing with it quite well this time. I think that Sony mishandled it last time, by not telling people what happened. This time, they did it right.

 

[RoyalWelsh]

At least Sony acted fast and efficient this time and it's good to know they told us straight away.

Isn't Xbox Live having some problems with people getting their accounts hacked aswell though?

[sub]Bloody hackers.[/sub]

 

[HyenaThePirate]

On another note, wasn't anonymous supposed to take down the New York Stock Exchange in an effort to join with the Wall Street Occupation protests?

Weren't they supposed to hack it on Monday?

I notice Anonymous hasn't posted a follow up video since their declaration that they were going to do that.

I notice nobody has even mentioned it, when Friday the internet was a buzz about it.

Hmmmm.

 

[Spygon]

This is what of should happened the first time but glad sony have learnt and adapted their security good job sony.

 

[Corpse XxX]

Can't we make these hackers bleed somehow?? preferably immensly!

 

[Dexiro]

You, Sony, has done it right this time, very right.
The question now is was this done out of boredom or did Sony somehow piss someone off?

Probably just people being assholes. Hell there are some people out there that will hate on Sony simply for not being Microsoft.

 

[GonzoGamer]

I'm just hoping that's all there is to the story.

However, it doesn't really matter to me. I pretty much use the same credit card for everything online and the limit is pretty low (I actually asked them to lower it even further after the last PSN attack. I would recommend you all do the same. That way, if the shit hits the fan again, you just need to replace one card and not much can be done with it.

Whatever you do; DO NOT use your debit card.

I got these suggestions straight from Frank Abagnale.

 

[TheDarkestDerp]

The way SOny should've handled their business the first damn time. Nice to see them learn from their mistakes. Good show, Sony.

 

[Callex]

Sony wasn't hacked. The passwords and logins came from elsewhere: old forum accounts, phishing sites, facebook - whatever. All the hackers did was try to match their stolen information with PSN accounts. Sony happened to notice this. They'll probably try the same thing with XBL, Steam or wherever they think there's a chance they'll get away with it undetected.

 

[GeorgW]

Sigh. Sony didn't actually get attacked at all. Hell, the system is actually now set up so that any of the accounts that someone did break into probably were automatically cleared of all credit card data.

The thing everyone seems to be ignoring is that whoever did this used a list of login/password combos from somewhere. A somewhere that has yet to say anything about losing this information.

So I'm going to be the stick in the mud here, ignore that Sony's name is in this, and ask where the over 90 THOUSAND logins and passwords came from. Seriously. I'm a little concerned about that, as you all should be too.

This is what I thought as well when I was reading the article. Still, I think the website is some kind of scam site, there are a lot of them that trick you into signing up for some small reward just to go and try your user name and password on a bunch of different sites. Hopefully it's just that.

 

[DannyJBeckett]

I wonder who it was this time. Anonymous claimed it was them who did it last time, and to be honest, I believe them. After all, surely anybody who does that sort of thing is automatically a part of Anonymous?

But, chances are, it's just some doubting Thomas who is convinced that PSN's security hasn't changed a bit, and that they spent two months sitting on their arses doing nothing. Nice to see that we as a species have kept our intelligence over the years...

Anonymous never claimed to have done it, and they CERTAINLY wouldn't have stolen credit-card data. Sony just said they did because people recognise Anonymous.

 

[Comando96]

"Claps"

Well done. You have prevented a fuck up and are not just like every other company on the planet of your size in terms of defence... (except Microsoft encrypt their data with nuclear weapons grade encryptions) which is adequate in avoiding... whatever happened last time.