SOE service down temporarily

[John Blackhard]

Originally Posted by starleaper Quoted from what source John?

http://www.soe.com/securityupdate/pressrelease.vm

Near the bottom, check after what the people might have gotten from you.

[starleaper]

Additonal information forthcoming, but stock shares have spiraled down and due to this effect, SOE will also be granting free bananas from all their street vendors in San Diego California.

Wow I want something that will interest me where I live.

Looks to me a daily F2P user will get nothing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5QGkOGZubQ

A monthly subscriber will get a month free + outtage days.

Woot what about stress? A Mazerati for meh stress!

[starleaper]

Originally Posted by John Blackhard http://www.soe.com/securityupdate/pressrelease.vm Near the bottom, check after what the people might have gotten from you.

Thanks!

Also a little tidbit:

"About Sony Corporation
Sony Corporation is a leading manufacturer of audio, video, game, communications, key device and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. With its music, pictures, computer entertainment and on-line businesses, Sony is uniquely positioned to be the leading electronics and entertainment company in the world. Sony recorded consolidated annual sales of approximately $78 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2010. Sony Global Web Site: http://www.sony.net/ "

A company so large that they can't control their files is cause for concern indeed.

[James Hope]

Lets hope FLS use this time to put 2.5 onto the servers!

[Braziliano]

Good stuff
Playstation Network is down since 2 weeks or so

So i guess there will be no pirates for a while
tbh i got 14 day vacation in 2 weeks so im sure i wont kill anyone in potbs before june

sony rly needed 2 weeks to find out soe got hacked after psn did get hacked? thats a joke lol

stop blaming fls for it it isnt their fault. maybe they didnt choose the best company to stream their game but who could know that

[ClericTaven]

Originally Posted by James Hope Lets hope FLS use this time to put 2.5 onto the servers!

Doubtful - from my observation, it isn't quite ready to hatch, but perhaps come over to the Test Server and see if the changes are worthy of promotion to the 'live' environment.

From what I've read in the Release Notes, Fishing should be rolled out in 2.6 while presently showcased in a pair of instances of parallel Jenny Bay and Charlesfort harbors.

[James Hope]

I wish I could, but it doesn't look like we will be playing any potb for a little while

[Darcolith]

We regret that our game servers and websites will not be online tonight (Monday, May 2, 2011.) We apologize for the inconvenience.

http://twitter.com/#!/SonyOnline

[Darkloam]

Originally Posted by MrSparkle Does this security breach affect any of us who recently paid for a month of PotBS? I did about two weeks ago and now I'm very concerned. I'm not a part of the Playstation network or anything, just PotBS.

I'm in the same situation. I first put my credit card into SOE's system about one week ago. The breach Sony had was earlier.

"Tokyo, May 3, 2011 - Sony Corporation and Sony Computer Entertainment announced today that their ongoing investigation of illegal intrusions into Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE, the company) systems revealed yesterday morning (May 2, Tokyo time) that hackers may have stolen SOE customer information on April 16th and 17th, 2011 (PDT). "
Source

So, unless the hackers gained a sustained access to SOE from the 16th onward, newer players are safe.

That 'unless' is the open question for us.

[MrSparkle]

Originally Posted by Darkloam I'm in the same situation. I first put my credit card into SOE's system about one week ago. The breach Sony had was earlier. "Tokyo, May 3, 2011 - Sony Corporation and Sony Computer Entertainment announced today that their ongoing investigation of illegal intrusions into Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE, the company) systems revealed yesterday morning (May 2, Tokyo time) that hackers may have stolen SOE customer information on April 16th and 17th, 2011 (PDT). " Source So, unless the hackers gained a sustained access to SOE from the 16th onward, newer players are safe. That 'unless' is the open question for us.

from http://www.soe.com/securityupdate/pressrelease.vm:

The personal information of the approximately 24.6 million SOE accounts that was illegally obtained, to the extent it had been provided to SOE, is as follows: * name * address * e-mail address * birthdate * gender * phone number * login name * hashed password. In addition to the information above, the 10,700 direct debit records from accounts in Austria, Germany, Netherlands and Spain, include: * bank account number * customer name * account name * customer address.

Does this mean they only got debit info from outside the US? (I'm in the US). I'm not seeing anything about them stealing credit or debit card info from the 24.6 million accounts.

It's not my SOE account I'm worried about, it's my credit card info. I signed up on the 15th.

Not only am I worried about my credit card info, but this outage screws up the time I pay for. They better reimburse us.