Whilst Sony is busy giving your personal information to skynet/hackers/anonymous, and everyone is busy changing all their passwords and worrying that the apocalypse is coming, Microsoft unbanned all their consoles. Oh yeah, and PSN is still down. More fail after the cut. 
Hey Cooper,
ReplyDeleteHow much do I pay for the PlayStation Network? Oh yeah, $ free.99
Yeah but you're going to be paying more for it now since they have yo credit cardz.
ReplyDeleteAnd i gots an inkling it won't be free for much longer if this keeps up so you can have "better service"
Hey Cooper. Maybe you should do some research before sounding like a fool?
ReplyDeleteBack in 2007, Xbox Live suffered a similar incident when hackers were able to gain access to XBL/Windows Live accounts by hacking Bungie.net. Microsoft launched an investigation as users reported unauthorized purchases with their credit cards. Security firm, Digital Munition even raised the issue on the Full Disclosure mailing.
Xbox.... first to come out
Xbox.... first to fail
PS. Isnt it funny that i posting as "anonymous"?
I don't think I will ever understand console fanboyism. When did it become a contest to see whose console of choice has had the larger security breach?
ReplyDelete>And i gots an inkling it won't be free for much longer if this keeps up so you can have "better service"
They never stated they found evidence credit card data was taken. The comments about watching for fraudulent charges is more a precaution.
But I must say anonymous, I think you are misinformed if you think the incident with Xbox Live a few years ago is in any way comparable to what is happening now with Playstation Network. From what I remember those incidents were pretty isolated. What we are seeing now is a massive security breach of a system with tens of millions of accounts. Unfortunately Sony will most likely never release any sort of post mortem report on what went wrong, but I don't think it is too much of a leap at this point to say that there were clearly large lapses in PSN's security model.
Cooper you're still not boned so relax
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