sajj316 said:
Do you have a link? I'm only seeing this which is $14.95/month:
http://www.experian.com/consumer-products/identity-theft-protection.html?pmidSrc=HMNU
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Do you have a link? I'm only seeing this which is $14.95/month:
http://www.experian.com/consumer-products/identity-theft-protection.html?pmidSrc=HMNU
Miggytronz
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So i can play Socom by weeks end?
Zoe
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Fallout-NL
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Everyone's insured for any dickery with their credit cards, right? At least here in the Netherlands it wouldn't be a real problem I think.
MurkyZebra2417
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Its locally stored on your PC, so someone would have to access your PC first, then hack the masterpassword.Jal said:
Jal said:
yup. your master password should not be used ANYWHERE and should not be easy or short.
Tryckser said:
lastpass is online... which is why i use keypass with dropbox. have your db on your dropbox folder and you can always update it and have access to it from everywhere.
Lastpass you can get a 2 factor authorization if you are that worried
alphaNoid said:
Also having all that information and associating it with an e-mail address makes social engineering and phishing easier. Social Security Number is the holy grail, but if you have all the other info you can use that as a tool to do all kinds of other dirt.
And yes, a lot of people have all this information on their facebook accounts. These same people are primed for some kind of attack, be it e-mail intrusion via security questions or social engineering. Believe me, Facebook is a fantastic resource for people wanting to steal your identity.
Edit: This is also the kind of info that gets spread all over the internet via a Torrent dump after a certain amount of time, which increases the vectors of attack exponentially.
I can't speak for Lastpass but that's sort of how it works for KeePass.Jal said:
The thing to note is that the hacker would first have to get your password database before he can try hacking into it. And there's lots of crazy additional encryption that makes a brute force approach useless (unless the hacker has a few dozen years to waste).
I use KeePass and I love it.
edit: You can even add additional layers of security on top of that master password if you want. You can make it so that the database will only open on your own computer or with a certain USB stick, etc.
Edag Plata
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So if we don't get an email, we're safe all around?
get2sammyb
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Edag Plata said:
If you've got a PSN account, you will get the email.
Edag Plata
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Ahhh, so its only a matter of time...
dreamer3kx
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So the longer nothing happens with anyone's CC info the better?
The_Darkest_Red
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Interesting... my Wachovia card was hooked up to my PSN. (Wells Fargo bought Wachovia awhile ago).Muerte_X said:
I ordered a replacement card about an hour ago though, so I should be fine as far as that goes.
dr_octagon
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someone mentioned this before, if you search your emails with the term DoNotReply@ac.playstation.net - it should show you the purchases and funding method (including any cards)Arnie said:
keep in mind, money may not be taken immediately, it might occur when the dust settles
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Mikasangelos said:
Bah, who cares? We can't have any video game talk in this thread!
But seriously, we need a separate thread for discussion on how this situation affects gaming.
dreamer3kx said:
Not really. It depends on what actually happened, if the CC info was obtained in an encrypted format, and who has it. If it was a small group of people or even an individual than they may be sitting on whatever was obtained until they can find a buyer. If they were smart they wouldn't just starting defrauding people CC accounts willy-nilly.
Hopefully Sony will be able to tell us definitively if our CC info was obtained or not, otherwise it's a crap shoot. They could have your specific CC info for months before selling it to an interested party.
gcubed said:
Not sure if I'd use dropbox for that sort of usage knowing something like this: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Desi...dly-Discovered-in-Dropbox-Client-194427.shtml
The_Darkest_Red
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I think you're right. I recently got a replacement card from AmEx because mine was damaged and it had a different number, I must have confused the two accounts. Not like it really matters anyway because I just checked my email receipts and realized that PSN had my AmEx card stored at one point as well...Zoe said:
Ugh.
not true. my card was used within 7-14 days after the monoprice theft was reported. I know it wasn't right away, but it wasn't months either.snackman said:
regardless, they specifically said that they DON'T think credit card data was accessible. People might want to reign back the hysteria a tad...
saying that they don't have evidence that the cc data was accessible I know isn't definitive... but to make that statement AFTER the security audit at least gives me the thought that it's unlikely. I am sure they will release a definitive statement on credit cards.marrec said:
Salaadin said:
Interesting, will have to check that out. It's been a while since I've used a pw keeper program, the last one I used was in Win98 and when I converted to WinXP it no longer worked and I had to install Virtual PC running Win98 just to get my pw's out, so I switched to using a pw protected word document which is encrypted.
But I'm not sure how secure a word document's pw is. One advantage to using a word document though is you can name it anything you want and put it anywhere on your hard drive you want so it wouldn't be immediately obvious to someone that pw data is in there, whereas with a dedcated pw keeper you pretty much know what's there and it would make it a target for anyone who stole your pc or hard drive data.
blurredvision
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borghe said:
That's not what they said at all:
"While there is no evidence at this time that credit card data was taken, we cannot rule out the possibility."
They didn't make an opinion on whether it was taken or not. They even say:
"...out of an abundance of caution we are advising you that your credit card number (excluding security code) and expiration date may have been obtained."
FirstInHell
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One positive outcome of this is maybe when this info is released people can see what the true count of users that PSN has. I know Sony made some big claims as to the count of their subscriber base.
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should I do it even if I don't have any cards in my name?sajj316 said:
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