Originally Posted by pinata242 (Post 10761620)

No doubt. But cockiness is a helluva drug. I'm just saying I wouldn't be surprised.

Originally Posted by dsa_shea (Post 10762467)

I'm looking at a list right now of accounts that have been made public with the email address and password. It pisses me off that someone would do this.

Originally Posted by mhg83 (Post 10762482)

I thought they only obtained e-mail addresses and not the password?

Originally Posted by DarthVong (Post 10762509)

From what I've read these are the ones obtained through the old sony site for a contest and not from psn.

Originally Posted by dsa_shea (Post 10762535)

I hope you're right.

Originally Posted by DarthVong (Post 10762545)

I can't find the link now but it was said that these were entries from a 2001 contest on an old copy of Sony's website that was inactive.

Originally Posted by DarthVong (Post 10762545)

I can't find the link now but it was said that these were entries from a 2001 contest on an old copy of Sony's website that was inactive.

Originally Posted by Joystiq

Sony removes 2500 'names and partial addresses' from exposed Sony website [Update: Not PSN related!]by Christopher Grant on May 7th 2011 10:15AM
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Update 11:15am: After some followup with our Japanese correspondant (Thanks, Ittousai!) we've updated the below story. Notably, the data was not from the PSN breach; rather, it was obtained from a publicly exposed file on Sony's own website, as revealed in this tweet two days ago. It's unclear what Reuters meant when it reported that the information "had been stolen by hackers and posted on a website" that Sony subsequently removed. It appears that Sony was able to remove the data from the website because ... it was Sony's own website! While this isn't related to the PSN attack, it is similarly emblematic of Sony's overall inability to protect sensitive customer data. You'll find our original (and erroneous) report after the break.

Update 11:56am: Included Sony's statement under More Coverage.



ORIGINAL: A report from Reuters' Tokyo branch reveals that the data lifted from PlayStation Network over two weeks ago had made its way from your life to Sony's servers into hacker's hands and finally, from there, onto an unnamed website. "Sony said on Saturday it had removed from the Internet the names and partial addresses of 2,500 sweepstakes contestants that had been stolen by hackers and posted on a website," Reuters reports.

Before you fret, let's detail the data a bit: It was from customers who entered a 2001 sweepstakes (Win a Free Identity Theft!) and did not include sensitive bits like credit card numbers, social security numbers, or passwords. "The website was out of date and inactive when discovered as part of the continued attacks on Sony," the beleaguered electronics company said. It's unclear how Sony was able to remove the website as quickly as it evidently did. Late last night, Sony re-adjusted its timeline for reactivating PSN, originally expected to be back online in some form this week, citing the need for further testing.

Originally Posted by Groucho (Post 10762600)

That link doesn't work for me, but I'm sure that my account is safe thanks to my superb and unique password "DuDe Click on the image to see full Size Greetings ALB".

Originally Posted by Decker (Post 10762604)

I did like the one guy whose password was "computer". Really???

Originally Posted by Decker (Post 10762601)

If you're combing through the list to see if you're listed, an easier way is to google your email address. These ones seem to all pop up. Mine didn't....yet.

Originally Posted by Decker (Post 10762601)

If you're combing through the list to see if you're listed, an easier way is to google your email address. These ones seem to all pop up. Mine didn't....yet.

Originally Posted by kotaku

The PlayStation Network has been down for a while now. We've been warned that it may be down for a little while longer. Now Sony says it could be weeks still before the PSN is fully operational.

Sony's Shigenori Yoshida has told Bloomberg that his company's deadline for the full return of all PlayStation Network services is May 31. The PSN went down on April 20. That's nearly six weeks of downtime if it takes that long for the entire network to be restored to full operation.

While you'd assume/hope that signing into the network and playing games online are the first things to come back up, and in a much quicker timeframe than May 31, Yoshida says that Sony is "uncertain" when the PSN will actually get back up and running.

Originally Posted by Drexl (Post 10762635)

There's nothing like good old "123456" for solid protection.