danpascooch said:
SnakeCL said:
danpascooch said:
JDKJ said:
danpascooch said:
If they were "unsure" of this they should have told their users fucking immediately so that they could cancel their PSN linked credit cards if they wanted to. Way to potentially give identity thieves a weeks head start Sony!
If I had a credit card on PSN and had my identity stolen over this, I would totally sue Sony for not announcing the potential for stolen financial data earlier.
danpascooch v. SCEA. I can't wait. Years from now, law professors will be assigning the landmark danpascooch case to their law students as required reading.
Are you saying it would be insane to sue them for that? Weren't you the one who just a week or so ago was saying a class action lawsuit against Geohotz was justified?
I'm saying that if Sony lost my financial data and didn't inform me of it, and I lost thousands because I didn't know to cancel my card because of Sony's silence. Then yeah, that's negligence with quantifiable damages.
Of course this doesn't apply to me, which I made clear in my post.
If your card company doesn't inform you that there's a plethora of charges or strange activity from your card, then seriously, your card company sucks.
Normally, in these situations the main company does not inform the user directly. It informs the various credit card companies, who then issue new cards and let their customers know.
Well, here's the status right now:
Sony: Maybe it was stolen
Credit Card Companies: *not informing cardholders or issuing new cards*
so yeah, that's not happening.
Sure your credit card company tries to inform you
once they start using it (that is,
if they can even tell the charge is suspicious) but what if the first time they use the card is for a multi-thousand dollar shopping spree? These guys KNOW that once they start using it it will be canceled, they aren't going to buy a pack of gum and then not use it again for a week.
What does it matter if they start using it for a multi-thousand dollar shopping spree? Your card company will pretty easily know that you did not make those purchases.
If they can't tell that purchases aren't "suspicious" then I recommend canceling that card and applying for one with better fraud detection.
If you're that worried about it, why don't you just pre-emptively ask for a new card? You CAN do that of your own volition, you realize?
For all you know, Sony could have already informed the various credit companies which accounts were compromised, and steps could already being taken.
What you're doing here is ill-informed chicken little "the sky is falling" mania, and it shows a clear lack of understanding in how credit issues are handled.
