mandiller said:
Has this been posted already?
Hacker runs up debt for Aussie PSN user
There's no way to confirm the link between the PSN breach and the credit card fraud, but there is likelyhood of it being connected.
I am not saying that it's unrelated to the playstation scandal, but this is stupid fear mongering which does not prove
anything.
There were 77 millions accounts hacked.
Let's say that 2 million of those were american accounts with a credit card info stored in it - i think most would agree is a conservative estimate ( i don't care to look for a better number).
The state with the lowest rate of id theft in the US is about 50 id theft per year, per 100 000 people. So for those 2 million psn users, we would expect at the very least 1000 id thefts for this year.
Assuming this was not a particularly low week for id thefts, and that psn users are not more or less likely to get id thefts, in this last week, of those american people that had a american credit, we should expect roughtly 20 people who had had id thefts.
The fact that the PSN was hacked would have nothing to do with those 20 poor chaps.
And again, I am being quite conservative, unless some of those estimates are off.
