If you are not a gamer, or simply a casual player, you may not have heard about the recent breach of Sony’s Playstation Network. In short, the network was infiltrated on April 17th, and the service was completely shut down on the 19th as a precautionary measure. Now, more than a week later services have yet to be restored, but Sony is finally starting to talk a bit more about what happened.
At this point, nobody knows the total extent of the data stolen, but stories are emerging that indicate just about everything that could be accessed was accessed. Sony admits that information such as names, addresses, passwords, and security questions have all been accessed by an unauthorized third party. They have also not completely ruled out the possibility that credit card data has been stolen as well.
It seems the situation has turned from a mere inconvenience to PSN users into a full-blown security and PR nightmare. After a breach like this with so many questions left unanswered, and the gaming network rendered completely useless, we have to ask:
When everything is “fixed” and back to normal, what could Sony possibly do to regain your trust?
I started reading the article and comments with intent to partake in the discussion. But now I’m so mind#@%*ed that I don’t remember what I was going to say. So ya. Oct 24 is a yearly day of mourning for me. Aaaaand uuum, how ’bout that there local sports team?
i grew up with a 1 mhz processor.
i have 25 years experiance in “software aquisition” and 20 years in legal hardware development.
its extremely simple:
if youre to stupid to hack/steal your games, music and videos,
and youre father is so stupid to give you his credit card number,
you simply deserve it.
next time it will be iTunes, Amazon, Microsoft, or even your online bank account.
Just wait and see.
This is a modern version of “Darwin”.
For the users and the providers.
Hi-Speed Internet with a credit card number is like driving a porsche with 190mph on the autobahn. The propability for a crash inreases by distance.
There is no save way to pay online.
Never was, never will be.
:)
@aLAN STOP TORLLING, leave HaD, many people used ps3’s in clusters because it was a very cheap way to make cell computer clusters