Sony Hackers Publish Stolen Personal Information Online

[WanderingFool]

What a Hack job!

*Slaps hand*

NO! No! No making bad puns...

*Hoists a D-Mat Gun*

Uhh... what exactly is that? and does it leave red smears after firing?

 

[ThePurpleStuff]

*Claps hands* well done, douchebag hackers. You have gained absolutely nothing and started a blood hunt with every single psn user you lied to. Hope you enjoy staying in your bomb shelter since no one is gonna stop looking for you till you're found. Was it worth risking the lives of you and possibly your family just to try to make a small game branch of a huge tech company look bad but really aren't? I don't think so but, hey, I'm also not a hacker.

 

[Tony2077]

i didn't even give a shit about sony back then so its not my info so meh

 

[Easton Dark]

I'm getting tired of these hackers. Can someone find out who they are so Sony can put them to work in spice mines or something?

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Ummm fuck. I entered that!

 

[xcgillx2]

I think that the hackers will wait for the hype to die down and then start using peoples credit cards. lucky I dont use PS3 no more

 

[sarahvait]

NOOOOO!!! IT'S TERRI-Wait, that's it? Carry on then.

Sort of wish I could make a pun worthy quip too, but not much else to do with the word hack. Now I just wonder if Sony might finally be able to get back on their feet, improve things and move forward.

 

[Skykhan]

You know, I really have to say I'm getting quite tired of these tabloid-esque titles to these news articles. The title was obviously misleading, and suggested much more information was at danger than really was judging from the article.

I made this post because no one else did, and there seems to be a few reactions of "This title had me frightened, but..."

My annoyance mostly stems from the fact that there have been a few titles like this in the past few months, and I have a great love of this website. I want it to shine, and not become another one of those boring lowbrow gaming websites. Please, you have the skill. Just use it.


OT: This hacking situation sure has gotten old. I really wish they'd give it up, there's nothing more left to prove at this point. :\

(Forgive the bad flow of words please, I don't normally make posts.)

 

[BabySinclair]

Confidential information will scare Sony, not this. Kind of botched their taunt.

 

[samsonguy920]

I've got some good news and some bad news. Here's the bad news: The hackers that were probably behind the attacks on the Sony Online Entertainment [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/109568-Sony-Admits-Private-PSN-Info-Has-Been-Stolen-All-Of-It] recently published a horde of stolen personal information online. The good news: It was evidently something that anyone could just look up in a phonebook.

And we know that these where posted by hacker because?

Exactly. Until these people grow a spine and openly own-up to what they did, anything that comes out on this just smells like copycat. Even this with information that was probably open information through some convoluted link maze in Sony's websites.
Trouble with copycats is it adds even more time and labor to catching the real perpetrators. There really isn't any win in this for anyone as it is screwing everyone over.

 

[DocBalance]

And all that fuss over decade old information.

Woah woah woah, "The good news: It was evidently something that anyone could just look up in a phonebook."? That's quite an important detail! Do they have confidential information on us or not?

Read the article again, guys. It's not saying this is all the information they have, it's just saying this is what they decided to publish. They still have everything we thought they did.

 

[emeraldrafael]

What do the hackers truly "gain" by doing this to people?

Profit.

OT: didnt they publish some of them before, or was that just rumors at that point?

 

[Guy32]

I'm so confused as to what they are trying to accomplish...

 

[Formica Archonis]

Clever boys; they trade unsellable information for tons of free advertising. My main problem with this is that everyone's ignoring the threat of data shadows and data pollution. Seriously, why were Sony keeping such useless info? It's only of use if someone steals it and then gets credit cards in the names of the poor suckers who haven't moved since. This information can pretty much ONLY be used by identity thieves, and yet they're holding on to it.

Some short excerpts on the problems with masses of data storage: Not controlling your own data (data shadows) and excessive amounts of data left lying around (data pollution).

Our Data, Ourselves [http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2008/05/securitymatters_0515]

Who controls our data controls our lives.

It's true. Whoever controls our data can decide whether we can get a bank loan, on an airplane or into a country. Or what sort of discount we get from a merchant, or even how we're treated by customer support. A potential employer can, illegally in the U.S., examine our medical data and decide whether or not to offer us a job. The police can mine our data and decide whether or not we're a terrorist risk. If a criminal can get hold of enough of our data, he can open credit cards in our names, siphon money out of our investment accounts, even sell our property. Identity theft is the ultimate proof that control of our data means control of our life.

We need to take back our data.

On People, the Death of Privacy, and Data Pollution [http://www.schneier.com/news-055.html]

MP: At DEFCON 15 in August 2007, you noted that data is the pollution of the information age. Can you elaborate on that?

Schneier: That's a good metaphor. Data is the pollution problem in the information age in the same way that pollution was the pollution problem in the industrial age. All processes today produce data. Every computer process produces data. Data stays around.

Data festers, and how we deal with it - how we recycle it, reuse it, dispose of it, what the regulations are concerning it - is central to the information age. Just as in the industrial age, we're largely ignoring the problem in a rush to get new technology, and twenty, thirty, fifty years from now we're going to be cleaning up massive data problems - just like we're cleaning up massive pollution problems today.

There is a notion of data decay, and some people have written about the fact that computers should be programmed to forget things, that remembering stuff forever is not necessarily good. That's a very complex, really philosophical issue, and there is no time to go into it now, but it is well worth thinking about.... There are some really good thinkers thinking about what it means to live in a society where people never forget. This is the first time in the history of our civilization that we've had that possibility. Is that a good thing or not? I don't know.

There's more up-to-date references but this is all I have at easy reach right now. It's a problem worth studying, because we WILL have to deal with it better than we've dealt with it so far.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Not entirely sure if it's relevant. Records from a Sony contest in 2001; how does that relate to PSN?

What a Hack job!

 

[Pearwood]

Read the article again, guys. It's not saying this is all the information they have, it's just saying this is what they decided to publish. They still have everything we thought they did.

Well we won't know that for sure until it's confirmed, I've seen confirmation that their stuff wasn't stored in plain text so all I'm doing is keeping an eye on stuff like this.

 

[Regiment]

You know, I really have to say I'm getting quite tired of these tabloid-esque titles to these news articles. The title was obviously misleading, and suggested much more information was at danger than really was judging from the article.

I made this post because no one else did, and there seems to be a few reactions of "This title had me frightened, but..."

My annoyance mostly stems from the fact that there have been a few titles like this in the past few months, and I have a great love of this website. I want it to shine, and not become another one of those boring lowbrow gaming websites. Please, you have the skill. Just use it.


OT: This hacking situation sure has gotten old. I really wish they'd give it up, there's nothing more left to prove at this point. :\

(Forgive the bad flow of words please, I don't normally make posts.)

I've been thinking the same thing. A bunch of attention whores caused Sony to temporarily shut down the PSN. I don't want an alarmist headline whenever anything happens. Tell me the facts. Besides, "Sony Hackers Publish Outdated, Publicly Available Information" is just as eye-catching as the title used.

 

[Traun]

You know, I really have to say I'm getting quite tired of these tabloid-esque titles to these news articles. The title was obviously misleading, and suggested much more information was at danger than really was judging from the article.

I made this post because no one else did, and there seems to be a few reactions of "This title had me frightened, but..."

My annoyance mostly stems from the fact that there have been a few titles like this in the past few months, and I have a great love of this website. I want it to shine, and not become another one of those boring lowbrow gaming websites. Please, you have the skill. Just use it.


OT: This hacking situation sure has gotten old. I really wish they'd give it up, there's nothing more left to prove at this point. :\

(Forgive the bad flow of words please, I don't normally make posts.)

It seems so. The Escapist has been trumpeting useless information about Anonymous, GeoHotz and Sony while trying to make it look as sensationalist as possible. It is sad really because there is a lot of great information about gaming available at the moment. THQ fiscal budged has been revealed to be in the negative again, with Homefront being their best selling game and I'm sure there is a lot of buzz about the upcoming E3.
Instead we get Fox News...

 

[KiraTaureLor]

What do the hackers truly "gain" by doing this to people?

The chance to embarrass a massive international multi billion dollar electronics company, which they are doing nicely

I guess it's a great time to invest in Sony stocks while their still down...