They attack and promise more is to come

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDPaFUfcmLg

Sony Replies

http://ca.kotaku.com/5790405/sonys-h...k-an-annoyance

Sony isn't laughing anymore... sadface :(

http://www.vg247.com/2011/05/04/sony...on-psn-breach/

If you look at these links, it is pretty clear what has happened. Ty says that they weren't organised enough, but it's entirely possible that all of those hackers attacking a single network could have found a serious weakness, or of course finally focussed the attack.

Either way SONY are completely responsible, as they didn't take the original threats seriously, and now all of their customers are suffering, and of course as TY also said, the banks and insurance companies.

I just really hope nobody has lost money over this, we have all lost our details, I was one of the ones lucky enough to cancel mine in time.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe account info such as usernames, passwords, and email addresses were stored in plain text in the Sony database.

This is hardly keeping our personal information safe.

I suppose there is no implied security for your credit card information when you use it at the mall either? I guess since the guy who repaired your car didn't have you sign a form he can freely distribute your personal and credit card information?

Just because it doesn't say it doesn't mean there is isn't an implied level of service.

Sony was given credit card and personal data and it is their responsibility to protect it. Sony is at fault. Were they negligent in their security is the important question.

Do you have their contracts with the credit card companies? I bet they signed something that they would protect cardmembers information etc.

Passwords were hashed, the rest were not. Standard procedure.

I work in a small Government Department and our standard procedure is to encrypt any data that contains personal details of our clients.

How you handle personal data is determined by law and they did protect it like any other company would do with the same type of data.

So far there is no sign that they were careless with their security measures thus they are not to be blamed and share the responsibility for the attack.


Saying that they are to blame because they were hacked is stupid, no security system is immune to breach.

It seems you're purposely avoiding my reply toward the top of this page, or you wouldn't still be attempting to protect SONY... which is pretty pointless anyway.

From what I can see you are selecting posts you think you can attempt to argue with, which either makes you a SONY employee or a troll. :)

"Unfortunately, we are unable to bring SOE services back online today. We regret the downtime." SOE by Twitter

me thinks that by the time sony finally does start to restore some services, Pirates Of The Burning sea will be in its casket waiting to be buried.

too bad, was a good game, too bad FLS teamed with sony.

my BURNING question, why cant fls just do everything them self?


ahh well, maybe i wait maybe i wont. never know

It seems they just didn't want to deal with the payment related side of things, SOE manage everything related to subs and purchases. Apparently it would have took a lot of work to implement these things themselves.

EDIT: this was answered by two different FLS employees a few pages ago, might want to take a look for yourself, hope this helps :)