Not the Facebook games!

lol. sony. i'd just give up at this point.

I hear that's the plan. There will be an option to enter your bank account info when PSN comes back online in order to receive a direct deposit of the compensatory funds.

Oh, it got worse.

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/02/so...redit-card-nu/

We can get bin Laden, but can't catch these douchbags?

We will in ten years.

Yikes. Now I'm really glad I cancelled my Debit Card last week.

Well, also keep in mind that this is S.O.E. the developers behind several MMO games, like DC Universe Online. It's separate from PSN, so if you never subscribed to one of their games, they won't have your info.

Still though, 2 branches of Sony infiltrated within a month, one may have credit card info stolen, the other definitely has CC info stolen. Both have personal info of users stolen.

Not a good month for Sony.

This is going to hurt sony pretty bad. I think the ps3 may make it out, but those mmo's are going to lose a lot of people because of this, monthly subs are their only way to make money after they have sold the product.

We only got him because all his personal information was stolen off the PSN.

I thought it was Apple tracking him on his iPhone 4 (White)

Let's see that douche ad guy make a sarcastic commercial about this. What a colossal fuck up and the way they handled it is even worse. I wish I had gotten MK for the 360.

He must not have read the user agreement.

Who agrees to something they didn't read!?

To the point addressed in our new thread title:

I'm certainly not up on this sort of thing at all, but it seems like maybe security wasn't as lax as we all are lead to believe.

That is the point that confused me. I couldn't imagine store passwords in plain text. In some of the systems I support you can get to the passwd file but they look like: $1$mam19$4tEbpV6TPNAqeBdFKJkXi1$-1. I probably would have called that encrypted, but I'm guessing encrypted means its stored non-ascii perhaps.

Yeah, hashing is more heavily used now. Encryption is good if you want to be able to decrypt. With a hash key, a good one, you won't be able to decipher the data.

Yeah, you don't want to decrypt. You want to see that the hashes match.

So if our personal data was actually well-protected, do we think that the info is actually still safe? Why isn't this a bigger story? I only found it in the Playstation Blog. Why isn't it being reported in Joystiq, Kotaku, etc?

Instead we get articles like this Canadian one that repeatedly criticizes Sony's practices, then briefly acknowledges that the data was hashed and that might have been adequate protection. Is encryption always safe? It seems disingenuous to rail on them if they might have actually been as diligent as we could have expected.

Woke up this morning to find my bank account was in the negative. Three charges to some international company all for the same amount went through and according to the bank more were pending. So they're re-issuing me new cards and reversing the transactions. Didn't think Sony had my cc info but then I remembered I've used it to purchase several games on the PSN store over the past few months.

Man that sucks.

So the card you used on PSN, you kept active? Up until the bank cancelling it of course.

I'm still waiting for my new card to show up in the mail. Cancelled my old card last week.

That sucks. Sorry. Did you play any SOE games or were you only PSN purchases?

It was only PSN purchases. I did have an SOE account long time ago when I played games like Everquest and Star Wars Galaxies but the card I used then is long gone.

Yeah, I kept my card active and it was the same one I used to make PSN purchases. I probably should have canceled it last week but like I said I forgot about the games I purchased.

Well one good thing about a new card for me is that I can use all those Redbox 1 use per card free rental codes again :P