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PSN Hack Update: FAQs in OP, Read before posting
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Beer Monkey
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Does PSN take Amex? I probably used my Amex card.
DiscoJer
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dude said:
Valve manages to update its store on time, right?
Sony has just taken a half-assed, half-hearted approach to the entire PSN thing. It showed in how they couldn't be bothered to update the store at a regular time (like every other digital download platform does) to crappy security.
Fuckme, just created my first PSN account about 3 weeks ago for my PSP Go, now I find out they possibly got my name/address/birthdate/email/mother's maiden name. why in the hell do companies require me to provide this information if they can't fucking protect it? This is major shit. And I can't even access my profile now to see what info has been compromised to know what steps to take to protect myself.
lifa-cobex
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DMeisterJ said:
Not sure what to think. To be honest il be suppressed if ANYONE buy's a ps3 for a long time.
This news has spread like wildfire on news, internet and radio.
This will be the worst Christmas ever for Sony.
Il be really interested to hear on how they bring back the comfort factor to the average household.
Uno Venova
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sixteen-bit
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boggles the mind.Wario64 said:
spindashing
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Yes. I use an AMEX card myself.Beer Monkey said:
pantyhelmet
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change it at the OTHER place..chances are its not the case anywhere else its being used..did you not even consider thats what they meant?jett said:
TheBaldEmperor
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spindashing said:
This may be a total coincidence but the credit card I had on file was used last week on the 21st to buy over $1000 of cosmetics from some online Canadian cosmetic store. My bank called me on the 22nd, removed the charges, and sent me a new card.
Big Baybee
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All this outrage at Sony, barely any for the hackers. This does suck, though.
I wasn't trying to imply the former. I should have been explicit in how interpreted it:Pyccko said:
They can't tell you your password. Which I translate it to: We can't see the plaintext passwords.
That there are other methods of storing passwords that are only a notch above plaintext passwords but still makes it impossible for normal customer reps to check the password has been explained in this thread.
RPGCrazied
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Wario64 said:
Give it another 6 days? >:|
CadetMahoney
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What about our trophies? Are they safe?
Neuromancer
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Shit takes time, broWario64 said:
AgentChris
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Both are to be blamed but Sony should have taken the necessary precautions to protect our information.Big Baybee said:
Hackers should be blamed for being low life losers.
keltickennedy
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MrPliskin said:
I agree that the same thing can happen to other services. I think where Sony is at fault, they did kind of challenge the hackers to try and attack them after all the geohot legal crap.
spindashing
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If it wasn't for GAF, I doubt I would have found out that my information may be in the hands of a third party that I do not know.Wario64 said:
If hackers want to hack a system they will.
If they put the same effort into Live, that would get hacked just as fast...or slowly, it's been what? 4 years? From what I remember Live did get hacked, maybe not as bad.
Lets not forget that the Pentagon gets hacked all the time.
Not making excuses, just putting it in perspective. I hope Sony assrapes these hackers.
But yes. Sony fucked up not sending this warning earlier. Then again, they probably waited until the security review was done and they knew for sure that some data had been stolen not just piracy.
If they put the same effort into Live, that would get hacked just as fast...or slowly, it's been what? 4 years? From what I remember Live did get hacked, maybe not as bad.
Lets not forget that the Pentagon gets hacked all the time.
Not making excuses, just putting it in perspective. I hope Sony assrapes these hackers.
But yes. Sony fucked up not sending this warning earlier. Then again, they probably waited until the security review was done and they knew for sure that some data had been stolen not just piracy.
Psy-Phi
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MrPliskin said:
Any system worth the time to set up for anything in business has logs. Those logs show what users accessed. They can be wiped of course, but that would require an intimate knowledge of the system from the hacker, because any system administrator learns to change the names and locations of these logs.
We have information going back for each month of the last 5 years on file, and I just work at a lab. Going back 15 years on backups. Every month is encrypted and backed up, with only the current month being plain and open to use. And you need root access on the system the log is on to modify it. And that root password is only known by 6 people on site (a site of over 300 people). It's the same set up at the university our lab works with, and they've got thousands of people that have access to their system and it logs every single user accessing anything on the remote systems.
I guess it's possible for something to fall through the cracks. I just can't believe they wouldn't have some means of knowing whether or not the file was accessed.
I am fully aware of how often CC info is compromised, it's a good policy to use a virtual credit card if your bank has that feature (thank you citi), or a credit card with a very low balance. Everyone should cancel their cards to be safe. If you use a debit card, get a new one after getting out a few hundred dollars from your account to live without your card for a few days (never know what might happen).
Four_Chamber
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Wario64 said:
Surprise! That part is why Dick Blumenthal (former Connecticut Attorney General and now Senator) has already started knocking on Sony's doors
GANGSTERKILLER
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FUCK YOU SONY AND YOUR PATHETIC PSN FAIL NETWORK!! I have also a PS3, but this shit is just ridiculous!!
lifa-cobex said:
I mean, I can't predict the future, but I don't think that people are not going to buy the system because it was previously hacked. They can easily buy it and buy a card in store, or buy a PSN card or code on Amazon. But who knows.
spindashing said:
I found out from Twitter. :/ Sony should have E Mailed us.
Professor Beef
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I wonder if PSN+ users are going to get free account insurance now?
Steve Youngblood
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To whom would their anger be directed at? The hackers blow, but until it's known who they are and why they were just so awesome that Sony never had a chance at stopping them, you're just directing anger at anonymous individuals. There's no one specifically to blame there. We do, however, know that Sony was in charge of keeping this personal information safe, and they failed to do so.Big Baybee said:
That's why people are mad at Sony.
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