BlizShadow

Apr 28 2011, 05:24 PM

Apologies; I'm still heated from another conversation.

Anyhoo, I don't agree with your distrustful nature of the forum keeping the fraud a mere possibility for you. There are people there who hardline themselves with consoles there, (as there are here), but the people who would be out to get Sony are not the ones even reporting this in the first place. If anything, they'd be the first people banned and several people actually were in the appropriate threads. You say you don't even go to the forum; well, I do. I've been there long enough to get a clear image of who's bullshitting and who isn't, and the situation as a whole has hardly been used as an excuse for the fanboys to come out of the woodwork.

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I will. But I'm still joining if it goes class-action. One I could use the money. And two this will ensure it doesn't happen again. Plus why change the number if it's still in there. This isn't as simple as changing a number. It's bad enough that it had to come to this in the first place. What pisses me off is that they didn't say anything for a week.

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Sony has confirmed it'll partially restore most PlayStation Network services at some point this week, but PlayStation Store will not return until "this month."

An exact day wasn't confirmed other than just this week in a press release published on the EU PS Blog, but services to return include:

This includes titles requiring online verification and downloaded games
Restoration of Online game-play across the PlayStation®3 (PS3) and PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) systems
Access to Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity for PS3/PSP for existing subscribers
Access to account management and password reset
Access to download un-expired Movie Rentals on PS3, PSP and MediaGo
PlayStation®Home
Friends List
Chat Functionality

It's also confirmed that access to PlayStation Store will return at some point this month.

Sony also confirmed that out of the 78 million-strong userbase for PSN, at least 10 million accounts had credit card information. It added that there was no evidence credit card information was stolen, but urged users to "stay vigilant," change other passwords and keep an eye on credit card statements.

It announced as well that 31 million US PSN accounts, 9.2 million UK accounts,7.5 million accounts in Japan and 3.5 million Canadian accounts for the network. 5,898 accounts were also made in Ukraine.

It comes as SCEI boss Kaz Hirai took to the stage in a media briefing this morning, which is still going, to address the hacking crisis that has seen the service go down, personal user data compromised and the company as a whole under serious criticism.

Hirai's speech, which began at 2pm JST (6am BST, 7am CET, 1am EST, 10pm PST, 4pm Sydney), expected to speak about the breach, as well as the management plan and when we can expect PSN to go back online.

The full speech is being streamed on the Sony website here.

Hirai first began by apologising for what has happened before going into a timeline of what had happened in regards to the PSN downtime.

We'll update this post as the conference goes on, but news already emerging from the event is that PSN is said to return online this week, according to a press packet given to journalists.

In terms of compensation, all PSN members will get a free month of premium service PlayStation Plus as well as free unspecified software and other free goodies that are to be announced.

PSN saw an "external intrusion" by hackers two weeks ago, and was brought completely offline due to it. Since then, Sony has confirmed that personal user data has been compromised, and has not ruled out the possibility that credit card data was stolen.

The news has been reported worldwide on mainstream press as well as specialist outlets.

Purplehog

May 1 2011, 12:20 AM

"It added that there was no evidence credit card information was stolen, but urged users to "stay vigilant," change other passwords and keep an eye on credit card statements."

That statement is blowing smoke to try and make people second guess what actually happened.. if that data wasn't tapped, there would be no need for the info of Sony's storing of credit card information to ever surface.. It happened and will most likely continue to happen to people who don't change their numbers if they've already been noticeably affected.

That being said, at least there is some form of compensation up front, but I wont be surprised if legal action will still be taken by people that were exposed by this incident. The saga surrounding this whole event is far from over.

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"The hackers that hacked PSN are selling off the DB," Keven Stevens, a security analyst with Trend Micro, wrote on Twitter. "They reportedly have 2.2 million credit cards with CVVs."

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Hackers are claiming the database includes full names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, passwords, dates of birth, credit card numbers, CVV2s ["card verification values," the three-digit security code used to confirm the validity of the card in transactions where the card isn't present] and expiration dates - in other words, pretty much everything.

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The first claim of credit card fraud arising from the PSN hack was made yesterday by an Australian man, who noticed $2000 in new charges on his account including several $1 transactions made on April 23, typically evidence of test runs to determine if an account is valid. Other reports, including $1500 spent in a German grocery store with a U.S. credit card, have also begun to rise to the surface; there is no proof, however, that these charges are actually connected to the PSN breach.

BlizShadow

May 1 2011, 09:42 AM

If you're wondering if this situation is as bad as people are purporting, then yes it is that bad. \o/

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"The hackers that hacked PSN are selling off the DB," Keven Stevens, a security analyst with Trend Micro, wrote on Twitter. "They reportedly have 2.2 million credit cards with CVVs."

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Hackers are claiming the database includes full names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, passwords, dates of birth, credit card numbers, CVV2s ["card verification values," the three-digit security code used to confirm the validity of the card in transactions where the card isn't present] and expiration dates - in other words, pretty much everything.

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The first claim of credit card fraud arising from the PSN hack was made yesterday by an Australian man, who noticed $2000 in new charges on his account including several $1 transactions made on April 23, typically evidence of test runs to determine if an account is valid. Other reports, including $1500 spent in a German grocery store with a U.S. credit card, have also begun to rise to the surface; there is no proof, however, that these charges are actually connected to the PSN breach.

Source: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/109661-Hackers-Offer-PSN-Credit-Cards-For-Sale

Purplehog

May 2 2011, 08:59 PM

http://www.mobilemag.com/2011/05/02/sony-adds-25m-names-to-the-hacked-list-psn-service-delay-imminent/

http://www.bigshinyrobot.com/reviews/archives/27006

Sony's service was just hacked again, 25 million more users are now apparently at risk. The reinstating of the online service will now be imminently delayed.