Sony Locks 93,000 Accounts After Hacking Attempt

[JMcEntegart]

Déjà vu?

Sony Locks 93,000 Accounts After Hacking Attempt : Read more

 

[HansVonOhain]

Unfortunate for Sony as they are getting a lot of attention while they are trying to fix their quirks

 

[mobrocket]

"The company assured affected users that credit card numbers associated with their accounts are not at risk"

because those were already stolen from the last time

 

[garyshome]

Well here we go again.

 

[The Greater Good]

Every time I read a story like this, I'm more thankful that I game on the PC.

 

[LongLiveRock1974]

I game 99% on PC and 1% on PS3. That 1% is really biting me in the ass.

 

[COLGeek]

While these stories get lots of attention on forum sites like Tom's, this sort of thing happens everyday, around the world, at countless businesses, banks, agencies, schools, etc and doesn't make headlines.

This is an unfortunate side-effect of a "connected" world. Just trying to keep things in perspective.

 

[dola74]

My ps3 is my blu ray player and that's about it. My xbox sits and collects dust because it's ancient tech. I game 100% PC 8)it just looks better and plays better.

 

[nemo888]

I did not like receiving an email that my Sony Online account had been buying stuff. At least they didn't use my credit card as the one I used for Sony was expired.

 

[AbdullahG]

Console gamers complain about the price for gaming PCs. We get what we pay for, and much more. You guys get this 😛

 

[soundping]

Need more biometric security.

 

[stingstang]

Haha! Remember the last time they said all the credit cards weren't on jeopardy?

 

[jsheridan]

you guys did read the article right? I mean it says that 33k of the accounts were from SOE.....so that is console only? I think this affects both console and PC gamers. The accounts probably belong to the people that gave up on Sony after the last attack and never logged back in to change their passwords. Hopefully it will all be cleaned up soon.

 

[hetneo]

I see 93,000 idiots who didn't bother to change their passwords after previous PSN blackout.

 

[mrecio]

"These attempts appear to include a large amount of data obtained from one or more compromised lists from other companies, sites or other sources," he said. "In this case, given that the data tested against our network consisted of sign-in ID-password pairs"

Why do other companies have databases with login ID's and Passwords to begin with? that in itself is very insecure, does Sony actually give this database out to other companies? If so to what purpose? I would much rather think that these are list stolen during the last break and are being tested, too bad 93K people are too stupid to actually change their password after knowingly being hacked.

 

[Novulux]

[citation][nom]hetneo[/nom]I see 93,000 idiots who didn't bother to change their passwords after previous PSN blackout.[/citation]

I didn't. Not because I am an idiot, but because I had never logged back on (no sensitive info)

 

[spectrewind]

Having seen this coming before it actually happened as it did, those PSN $20/$50 cards you can buy at just about any grocery store seem to be then answer.
Load your money into one of those and validate the number against the website. When you do buy something, no credit card needed.

There's probably a more ingenious way to do it, but that seems to work for me, and ensures security by not inserting my credit card info to the PSN service/website.

 

[izmanq]

[citation][nom]soundping[/nom]Need more biometric security.[/citation]
i don't think biometric will help much 😀 if they can get users biometric data, it's just like users password, and the bad news is, you can't change your biometrics 😀

 

[psychotek71]

i just got hit with with credit card fraud
someone stole my info from the psn ..
now what sony ... im so gonna sue

 

[eddieroolz]

At least Sony seems a lot more prepared now to deal with these sorts of attacks. Make no mistake; cyber attacks will not end.

 

[velocityg4]

"If you are in the small group of PSN/SEN users who may have been affected, you will receive an email from us at the address associated with your account that will prompt you to reset your password."

How many of these people will actually pay attention to the e-mail and not just delete it immediately as spam. As we have been trained to do with all the scam e-mail claiming to be Paypal, eBay, Bank of America, &c. Which then ask to click a link to verify information among other things to get passwords, usernames, personal identification, &c.