While nowhere near the magnitude of the attack back in April, Sony has confirmed its PlayStation Network service has been victim to a new act of digital devilry.
The company has announced it's detected attempts form hackers to test a set of IDs and passwords across the PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment, which Sony soon shut down. It estimates 93,000 accounts may have been accessed — a small fraction of the 93,000,000+ accounts worldwide — but that no credit card information has been taken. All affected users will receive an email with further instructions in the near future.
For everyone else, it's business as usual: PlayStation Network is still up, but now might be a good time to change the old password.
[source mcvuk.com]
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Well, it was only a matter of time. No company is really safe now-a-days. Hackers are just faster than any defense a company can put up.
It's not really a hack. They had IDs and passwords from somewhere else, and were trying their luck.
As I see it, if they got into your account with this, it's your own fault.
1. If the details were obtained during the April attack, you should have changed your password.
2. If the details were obtained via another site, you shouldn't be entering your details elsewhere anyway.
Many sites use the official PSN login and/or the session ID it generates. But by using this method, the 3rd party doesn't get your details.
However, there are sites like Raptr who ask you for your PSN login details so that they can update your trophies etc., but - crucially - don't use the official PSN login forms, and actually take and store the data themselves. If you've entered your details there, and they get hacked...
Note that I'm not saying it was Raptr, just that there are sites that do things that way... and I've never entered my details on any such site for that very reason.
@Paranoimia
Very good advice. I never enter my details on sites anyway, so I'm feeling fairly safe.
Ichabod's log in and password are: ****** ****** lol
This is really sad news, just after they get things sorted again the crap hits the fan.
It doesn't look as if the service was hacked this time around, thank goodness!
I've never entered any credit card numbers into the PSN. I buy everything through Amazon codes. Am I at risk at all?
@autoglazzo well even if someone got access to yours they would have to use their own money to buy then
But sony said no CC was in danger from this attempt
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