Sony's Station.com Taken Offline

[WilliamRLBaker]

Wow and it just keeps getting worse for Sony...did they use the non security in all realms of their company or something?

 

[Harbinger_]

Lets hope if SOE has an information leak it doesn't take them a week to inform us followed by the claim of "We told you as soon as it happened!"

 

[cWg | Konka]

Sony just can't catch a break, eh?

I hope that after this, the hackers will focus on the WBC instead.

Also:

What?

I don't get it, do those recaptcha thing, just appear..?

they are bastards, ive had letters from the greek alphabet and hebrew stuff. Its fucking shit

 

[Korten12]

Sony just can't catch a break, eh?

I hope that after this, the hackers will focus on the WBC instead.

Also:

What?

I don't get it, do those recaptcha thing, just appear..?

they are bastards, ive had letters from the greek alphabet and hebrew stuff. Its fucking shit

No but I mean like, do they post and then suddenly in their post is the recaphtcha?

 

[WickedFire]

I reckon it'll be to make sure that the games will work with the more secure PSN. Considering by the sounds of it they are completely retooling the security, and some of these games are on the PS3 then its fairly obvious that something will have to change with the games to accomodate the changes to PSN.

 

[Captainguy42]

... God Dammit I play DCUO. This just hasn't been a good time to be a patron of Sony now has it. Time to Cancel my card I guess.

 

[tcurt]

Free Realms is down too. My kids won't be happy when they come home from school. This is interesting to me, because on the official Free Realms forums, an official FR rep stated very specifically that PSN and the MMOs don't use the same databases and that the Free Realms was completely unaffected by the PSN troubles. Uh huh. I've never been so happy that I used Station Cash cards as I am now.

 

[koroem]

Could someone do some digging on this? I need to know if I should cancel my card, I had a Star Wars Galaxies account a while ago. I really wouldn't have the first clue about finding out if SOE has been breached...

Do what you feel is needed:

Sony Now Says 10M Credit Cards Accounts Compromised

Typical Sony here, clam up and deny everything until you are forced to admit it. The last time we reported on this, the company went from claiming "no-proof" that credit card info was stolen, to saying "the data was encrypted," to today....10 million credit card details may have been compromised. frown

That's not the personal details on their PSN account - all 77 million of those were up for grabs - that's ten million customer's credit card details. We've known for some time that credit card details have been at risk as part of the attack on the network, but this is the first time Sony has been able to put a figure on the number of card holders potentially affected.

http://www.hardocp.com/news/2011/05/02/sony_now_says_10m_credit_cards_accounts_compromised

http://kotaku.com/#!itonlydoesoffline/5797552

 

[Grey_Focks]

The plot thickens, I suppose. Honestly, during this whole thing, I feel like there is some VERY critical information we haven't been shown. Waiting to hear some more news on this, but there is definitely more to the story.

 

[LogicNProportion]

I never gave my credit info on PSN, so I wasn't worried...

But I played SWG for YEARS using my credit card.

If the two are connected...

Awwwwwwwwwwwww fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

 

[faefrost]

In the course of our investigation into the intrusion into our systems we have discovered an issue that warrants enough concern for us to take the service down effective immediately.

This doesn't sound like the phasing back at all, if it was just a technical maintenance thing (such as having to take it down before relaunching it with new security) they wouldn't use words like "concern", "issue" and "immediately"

If I had to guess, I would say they just discovered that more data was stolen then they previously thought.

Exactly. The way this statement came out and its suddenness is very worrying for any Sony MMO player. This wasn't some sort of maintenance alert, or "as a result of security issues discovered during the recent PSN breach we will be experiencing an extended maintenance time today to increase and improve network security" This was a "EVERYBODY BRACE FOR CRASH POSITIONS" sort of emergency announcement. I am really thinking that they may have just discovered that SOE has been breached too.

 

[Kingsnake661]

The last week hasn't been too good for Sony has it.

That's a hell of an understatment. LOL

 

[Kingsnake661]

I never gave my credit info on PSN, so I wasn't worried...

But I played SWG for YEARS using my credit card.

If the two are connected...

Awwwwwwwwwwwww fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

It's of no concern to me at this point, as all my old cards have been closed out already after the PSN debockel. I close all 3, even though only one was prolly effected, just cause i couldn't remember for sure, if i'd used a different one in the past, and out of an over abundence of caution. So.. even if SoE got hacked too, it's all outdated info now...

And the first of my new cards just got to me, my Discover, the only card i really use, so, NOW, life is back to normal. LOL.

 

[Kingsnake661]

It probably has something to do with the "phasing back PSN" thing. Since DCUO and Free Realms are on PS3, too.

But that offical statement doesn't really fit that idea, does it? It could be that SOE had info stolen, too.

Could someone do some digging on this? I need to know if I should cancel my card, I had a Star Wars Galaxies account a while ago. I really wouldn't have the first clue about finding out if SOE has been breached...

don't cancel it... if someone fraudulently uses you credit card not only will you be able to have the charge adjusted b ut you can sue sony ^_^ but if you have a debit card... erhm yeah cancel it

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Im pretty damn sure that those terms and conditions you agree too when signing up have "Thou shalt not sue us" somewhere in there.

It's not as iron clad a protection as they'd hoped it was, turns out. Not that i'm intrested in suing, but, no, that won't nessessirly save them.

 

[Spygon]

see this is what i mean couldnt sony have done this for the psn when it got hacked with a message explaining that they were investigating an intrusion.Then update it with news instead of not telling anybody anything.

 

[Lvl 64 Klutz]

I doubt anything actually happened, but seeing as all my friends who play any SOE game have had their account hacked at least once, I'd say Sony's security consultants have pointed out that their security sucks bollocks there, too.

 

[Marmooset]

Also:

What?

It says "sedated pie", of course. Makes sense to me.


OP: The Station's just down until they can confirm they located and liquidated the hackers in a Pakistani suburb. Then they'll make an official speech.

 

[punipunipyo]

um... I've been off line from sony for two weeks now... Why would people crack PSN? is it for power trip? pride? vengeance? profit? it's bad taste... I hope it have nothing with that one hacker, who's bitching about sony, taken the money, and use it to gather resource to break in to SONY, thinking that he's on some kinda crusade, but in fact, he's just making all the players mad... (at SONY? um... his motive?) I donno... just a thought... I could be wong...

 

[zombie711]

Sony just can't catch a break, eh?

I hope that after this, the hackers will focus on the WBC instead.

Also:

What?

I don't get it, do those recaptcha thing, just appear..?

they are bastards, ive had letters from the greek alphabet and hebrew stuff. Its fucking shit

No but I mean like, do they post and then suddenly in their post is the recaphtcha?

I belive if you start to post comments in a row they appear.
like so

 

[JDKJ]

It probably has something to do with the "phasing back PSN" thing. Since DCUO and Free Realms are on PS3, too.

But that offical statement doesn't really fit that idea, does it? It could be that SOE had info stolen, too.

Could someone do some digging on this? I need to know if I should cancel my card, I had a Star Wars Galaxies account a while ago. I really wouldn't have the first clue about finding out if SOE has been breached...

don't cancel it... if someone fraudulently uses you credit card not only will you be able to have the charge adjusted b ut you can sue sony ^_^ but if you have a debit card... erhm yeah cancel it

nope.jpg

Im pretty damn sure that those terms and conditions you agree too when signing up have "Thou shalt not sue us" somewhere in there.

LOL those terms and conditions are null and void if they break it themselves by allowing their systems to be hacked into and your personal information stolen. That is why there is a lawsuit over the PSN breach. Hopefully though this is nothing but precautionary measures. Talk about your negligent security though. Good job Sony......good job.

The terms of the PSN's TOU are rendered null and void because the system experienced a data breach? Did you just make that up? Or do you have some kinda legal authority, like a court case or statute or even the opinion of a legal scholar, that supports that claim? I'm thinking it's made up. In fact, I'm calling "bullshit!" on that one.