Still ain't back. This is really pissing me off. It just has to happen when I'm off for holidays.
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Still ain't back. This is really pissing me off. It just has to happen when I'm off for holidays.
I wanted to download the Mortal Combat demo :(
wtf Sony. It's been like 4 days.
EDIT: Apparantly...http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comme...ecom_the_real/
Gamasutra - News - PlayStation Network Accounts Compromised, Personal Information Stolen
Awesome.
On the plus side, at least my credit card info wasn't up to date. Wish I could remember what my password was. Pretty sure it was completely different from any other I use. Still, I'd recommend anyone else on here change passwords as needed and watch your credit card statements if you had that info saved.
I had deleted my credit card info earlier this month so i locked out on that. I honestly don't remember what my password is a lot of places... but i am pretty sure nothing with that particular password was anything important.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vivi22
THE JACKEL
Well poop. My card was definitely saved. I'll just sue Sony for letting my account get hacked due to their faulty security systems.
I am surprised that a major corporation like Sony could let something like this happen. I wondered, personally, if something like this has happened before where a major corporation has lost the personal and financial information of millions of customers? Something similar happened recently with Epsilon losing the email addresses and some personal information of millions of customers, but there were no credit card numbers involved. This event shows you that even the largest of companies are not infallible.
The Ohio Department of Taxation had someone steal a bit of equipment with sensitive information on it which allowed me to get a year's worth of fraud protection for free. It also put an alert on my credit report, which I still have on there to authenticate my identity because it makes sense to do so.
Welcome to another edition of A Sense of Perspective With Old Manus! Today, we'll be discussing the recent closure of PSN by Sony, the culprits, and the winners and losers in this whole sorry affair.
Firstly, this wasn't Anonymous, but at the same time, could well have involved somebody who frequents /b/ and /v/. A group of homebrew crackers made a bit of custom firmware that essentially managed to bypass any credit card authentication process when buying media from PSN (the words getting bandied about are 'like a developer's console'), so these people would just put in a bunch of fake CC numbers, and harvest the movies and games.
Sony realise this, and decide that the best course of action to stop this horrendous misuse of their servers by a few dozen buff bods was to shut down the thing entirely, and block millions of their users. The long wait is due to them sitting around director's offices passing the buck around until Kenny the copy boy is sacked, and thinking of a way to totally rejig the system.
So really, it's Sony's fault for having the main apparatus of their network system relying on local firmware which can be manipulated by anyone with half a brain. Nice of you all to jump to blaming a load of fifteen year old hentai collectors though.
Next week, we'll discuss Swansea's promotion to the Premier League, Carlos Tevez/Anthony Keidis - seperated at birth?, and just why five razorblades cannot possibly give a less irritating shave, no matter what Gilette says.
It's easy to blame Sony, but if the people hadn't hacked it in the first place then it wouldn't have happened. It's not like they have no blame at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Old Manus
Anyway, I don't think my parents credit card details were on there, but even if they were then whoever has them would probably feel so sorry for us that they'd actually put money onto it.
A short episode next week then.Quote:
Next week, we'll discuss Swansea's promotion to the Premier League.
But Manus, if we don't know who did it, aren't they then, by virtue, anonymous!?
Manus, not sayin anon is involved (nor have I ever), but you can't really claim with certainty that everyone involved with the group had nothing to do with it considering only an idiot would admit to this and take responsibility. Now it's just as, if not more, likely that the culprit was either smart or lucky enough to time this with anon's various threats to Sony so far. In fact, I'd put my money on that simply because this is a more sophisticated attack than anon are known for.
Either way though, it really doesn't matter at this point to customers who did it as much as it does taking steps to protect themselves.
Oh I'm not saying that whoever did it wasn't part of Anon, just that this wasn't some concentrated effort on /b/ or anything. The perpetrators more than likely came from a totally different website.
The irony is that none of my account info has been used during all this, or any other time the PSN has been screwed up due to Sony's failure, but I found out the other day that Microsoft has been ripping $9.99 a month out of my account that I don't use for the last two years (while my 360 was sitting on a closet shelf collecting dust). I never authorized it, and only provided my card information for the initial free trial back in 2007 I think, and yet, for some reason, they didn't start taking my money until 2009. I only found out because my bank notified me that I only had $3.00 left in the account.
So no matter how much Sony screws up, I still hate Microsoft more; they stole from me intentionally.
DMKA, that's some bull:bou::bou::bou::bou: right there. Micro$oft the money thieving bastards :argh:
Holy mother of God. This is incompetence on a level of local council budgeting. So basically, Sony have admitted that somebody somewhere has your name, address, date of birth, PSN username and password, and, even thought they're being shy about it, your credit card number, security code, and sort code.
Intel gives the explanation for this bull:bou::bou::bou::bou: as Sony sends PSN purchases as smurfing GET requests fully visible in the URL, and then stores all this data in PLAIN TEXT. I facepalmed so hard that I gave myself a brain hemorrhage.