Sony Accidentally Erases List of Anniversary PS4 Winners
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[quote]Sony in Japan has accidentally erased the list of all 123 winners of its PlayStation 4 Anniversary Edition contest, meaning it will need to restart the competition.
The corporation has offered its "deepest apologies," after determining that all data of the winning contestants is irretrievable.
"Our deepest apologies for the trouble we have caused to those who entered the previous campaign," Sony wrote on its website, as translated by Kotaku.
Between December and January, customers in Japan who bought either a PlayStation 3, a PlayStation 4, a PS Vita, or PlayStation TV, were eligible to receive a calendar attached with a unique code.
Of those customers, Sony picked 123 codes as the winners, and was prepared to send each a highly sought-after 20th Anniversary PlayStation 4, of which only 12,300 exist worldwide.[/quote]
[url]http://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-accidentally-erases-list-of-anniversary-ps4-w/1100-6425579/[/url]
How does that even happen?
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[QUOTE=Helix Snake;47227860]How does that even happen?[/QUOTE]
Deleted the wrong .txt file, I bet.
I would get so pissssssed
There are two types of people in the world. Those that back up and those who have lost data.
How do you delete a list, not only so that it is lost but also UN FUCKING RECOVERABLE
jesus christ sony get your shit together.
Sony is such a joke lol
They are basically apologizing to no one, since no one knew whether they had received it right?
You could still recover it assuming its a file and you haven't overwritten it.
DROP TABLE "winners";
[QUOTE=aznz888;47228129]DROP TABLE "winners";[/QUOTE]
"No you idiot I said WIENERS!"
I bet your average high school IT department is more secure than Sony's IT these days.
Serves them right.
[sp] I really want a grey ps4, fuck you Japan. All I got was this lousy white one.[/sp]
It's easy to delete something like that, depending on how they were keeping the record. If it was a text file on someone's desktop it wouldn't surprise me if they just accidentally deleted it while tidying up their desktop.
You'd be really surprised at how data can be "unrecoverable" though. The business I work for manages a lot of the IT for the city, and three major utilities were recently hit by cryptowall. They're all running backups of course, but we weren't notified about the problem until it was too late and our backups started backing up all of the encrypted files, overwriting the clean ones. We wanted to push for two weeks worth of backups, but we have to do it with tapes because the city is seriously underfunding IT, so we can only work with so much. Guess whoever was in charge of putting in new tapes said fuck it and decided to do one week instead.
Shit sucks a big one, that's for sure.
[QUOTE=Jordax;47228162]I bet your average high school IT department is more secure than Sony's IT these days.[/QUOTE]
My high school had like, 200 backups of my work folder :v:
Although most of the technicians got sacked because they were always watching porn on their TV they had in that room.
[QUOTE=Jordax;47228162]I bet your average high school IT department is more secure than Sony's IT these days.[/QUOTE]
One of my idiot co-workers claims he used to work as a security administrator for Sony.
He also once stated "I don't understand Darwinism and how we all supposedly evolved from a man named Darwin", has made other statements such as "I can't wait for that dumb n****r Obama to get out of office", and dropped out of home-school.
Most of the evidence points to him being a lying nit-wit, but considering Sony's security issues...
[QUOTE=Helix Snake;47227860]How does that even happen?[/QUOTE]
someone's ps4 tag is " xXxDank420xXx)'; DROP TABLE Anniversary;-- "
[editline]27th February 2015[/editline]
[QUOTE=aznz888;47228129]DROP TABLE "winners";[/QUOTE]
FUCK
They grey scheme looks cool and all, but I really was hoping that it would use the old boot up sequence.
I seriously have no idea how anyone can put faith into Sony these days. The PS4's hardware was falsely advertised, they have insane security issues and they're supposedly going bankrupt 24/7. How can you even trust these dudes with your PS online credit card info and shit?
[QUOTE=Zero-Point;47228373]One of my idiot co-workers claims he used to work as a security administrator for Sony.
He also once stated "I don't understand Darwinism and how we all supposedly evolved from a man named Darwin", has made other statements such as "I can't wait for that dumb n****r Obama to get out of office", and dropped out of home-school.
Most of the evidence points to him being a lying nit-wit, but considering Sony's security issues...[/QUOTE]
"hello i am sony security admin pls send me ps3 login"
[QUOTE=MrHeadHopper;47243070]I seriously have no idea how anyone can put faith into Sony these days. [B]The PS4's hardware was falsely advertised[/B], they have insane security issues and they're supposedly going bankrupt 24/7. How can you even trust these dudes with your PS online credit card info and shit?[/QUOTE]
I must have missed or forgotten about this. Do you have a source I could look at? Also the Playstation division is one of the parts of Sony that consistently makes money, there's no risk of it going under.
[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;47244116]Also the Playstation division is one of the parts of Sony that consistently makes money, there's no risk of it going under.[/QUOTE]
The PlayStation division doesn't make that much money, the PS4 only broke even in 2014 and the PS3 wiped out all of the PS1 and PS2 profits. Nearly all of the money Sony makes is actually outside their electronics, with the electronics bogging them down heavily.
Good thing I use Git for my programming stuff, and I'm basically guaranteed to never lose anything.
[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;47244116]I must have missed or forgotten about this. Do you have a source I could look at? Also the Playstation division is one of the parts of Sony that consistently makes money, there's no risk of it going under.[/QUOTE]
Think he's talkin out his ass on that one. But yeah, a source would be nice on a claim like that.
[QUOTE=chunkymonkey;47244170]Think he's talkin out his ass on that one. But yeah, a source would be nice on a claim like that.[/QUOTE]
He might be talking about how certain games (most infamously Killzone) were promised a higher resolution than was actually received in certain areas.
[QUOTE=Aide;47228104]You could still recover it assuming its a file and you haven't overwritten it.[/QUOTE]
If I can recover a 2GB Video File and restore it so it plays fully, I have no idea why a .txt would be difficult to recover. Unless they left it for a while and one of the blocks were overwritten.
Fuck me at least enable Volume Shadow Copy or something jesus.
[QUOTE=zeromancer;47244273]If can recover a 2GB Video File and restore it so it plays fully, I have no idea why a .txt would be difficult to recover. Unless they left it for a while and one of the blocks were overwritten.
Fuck me at least enable Volume Shadow Copy or something jesus.[/QUOTE]
discounting hardware damage perhaps?
[editline]2nd March 2015[/editline]
or the sector being overwritten
[editline]2nd March 2015[/editline]
it's true that files aren't deleted when you delete them in a windows user-interface, they're flagged as over-writable space however. there's a very large chance that, especially in an active computer, that it was just written over.
[QUOTE=DoctorSalt;47244153]Good thing I use Git for my programming stuff, and I'm basically guaranteed to never lose anything.[/QUOTE]
They didn't lose code? They lost a document containing the names of winners
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