Sony: Attempts made to log into 93000 network accounts obtained from earlier this year
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Sony [SUB][SUP][URL=http://www.gamepron.com/news/2011/10/11/sony-93000-network-accounts-compromised/]Gamepron.com[/URL][/SUP][/SUB]
Perhaps in light of the PlayStation Network downtime which devastated online gaming earlier this year, Sony has announced that nefarious types have been testing a “massive set” of sign-in IDs and passwords against the company’s networks.
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How massive? Roughly 60,000 PlayStation Network / Sony Entertainment Network accounts, plus around 33,000 from Sony Online Entertainment “may have been affected,” says Chief Information Security Officer Philip Reitinger (that’s a hefty figure, but still less than one tenth of one percent – 0.1% – of the company’s audience). All of the potentially affected accounts have been temporarily locked – and Sony is quick to assure gamers that “only a small fraction” of the 93,000 accounts had recorded additional activity prior to being locked.
Reitinger explains on the PlayStation.Blog:
[release][i]We are currently reviewing those accounts for unauthorized access, and will provide more updates as we have them. Please note, if you have a credit card associated with your account, your credit card number is not at risk. We will work with any users whom we confirm have had unauthorized purchases made to restore amounts in the PSN/SEN or SOE wallet.[/i][/release]
Any PSN/SEN account which recorded both a sign-in ID and password match through the recent attack will now require a secure password reset – if you’re one of them, expect a message in the email inbox associated with your account.
Affected SOE accounts should also expect an email – an official message from Sony advising how to validate your account credentials to get your account turned back on.
In closing, Reitinger observes:
[release][i]We want to take this opportunity to remind our consumers about the increasingly common threat of fraudulent activity online, as well as the importance of having a strong password and having a username/password combination that is not associated with other online services or sites. We encourage you to choose unique, hard-to-guess passwords and always look for unusual activity in your account.[/i][/release]
Earlier this year, Sony received significant consumer backlash after apparently not reporting a similar incident, which lead to a nearly two-month downtime and millions of user accounts (including credit card details) being compromised.
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God fucking damnit Sony.
Get your shit together.
In other news, the PS3 slim is probably getting a price drop again.
Holy shit, again?
RIP sony
Misleading title.
That is, if I'm not mistaken. Last I heard was that they noticed a HUGE amount of attempted sign-ins on various IDs.
Misleading title.
By the time the PS4 releases no one will give a flying fuck about it due to this shit with the security.
It's like Sony is physically incapable of securing ANYTHING.
Imagine if Sony was a bank institution, people would be steaming.
If I was apart of Sony's systems when this first happened all I had to do was change my password, right? If all they're doing (all they CAN do) is testing the data then there's no disaster and if there is one it was averted by locking the accounts...?
Going by what I read on the playstation blog, these are just passwords that have been compromised from before
people who have them are trying to use them
All of you, don't just read the title. It's extremely misleading. Read the OP for once.
Go ahead and hack the network. Theres a reason all I use are pre paid cards. :D
[QUOTE=OzJackal;32741882]Good game.
[quote]"Please note, if you have a credit card associated with your account, your credit card number is not at risk."
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Hah, where have we heard that before?[/QUOTE]Are you implying Sony lied last time and people actually did have unauthorized charges as a result of the leak?
Old passwords, leaked out and used. That's all, no big deal everyone can go home now.
What a misleading title.
This news isn't really noteworthy, though. It's just stolen passwords that are trying to be used. Nothing too big.
Sensationalist Headlines at it's best.
Even if they were hacked again, that the percent total of how many people who were hacked is less than 1 percent which is REALLY fucking good.
[QUOTE=Starpluck;32742136]Are you implying Sony lied last time and people actually did have unauthorized charges as a result of the leak?[/QUOTE]
can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but my parents debit card details were compromised (or attained otherwise eerily close, time wise)during that huge downtime.
[QUOTE=Aezir;32742741]can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but my parents debit card details were compromised (or attained otherwise eerily close, time wise)during that huge downtime.[/QUOTE]
Anecdotal doesn't count.
That's all the evidence they have to actually say that it actually happened is anecdotal.
[QUOTE=Aezir;32742741]can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but my parents debit card details were compromised (or attained otherwise eerily close, time wise)during that huge downtime.[/QUOTE]
I thought that too, it turned out to be something else.
I don't get it, what are the hackers motivations on ruining Sony's life?
Lucky me, I didn't get that message. But sony, come on now. I bought you because I thought you were better. -__-
[QUOTE=Conspiracy;32742840]I don't get it, what are the hackers motivations on ruining Sony's life?[/QUOTE]
Sony fucked with linux
you don't fuck with linux
[QUOTE=Conspiracy;32742840]I don't get it, what are the hackers motivations on ruining Sony's life?[/QUOTE]
They think that doing stuff like this is hurting Sony because they got their precious Linux taken away when they're only hurting the users.
I don't give a shit about this. I never used my credit card to buy stuff from the PSN store.
Edit: And back when my account was taken over, they just bought me a 0,80 cents avatar :v:
love how soul crushingly inept sony are
Sony made it mandatory to change your password after the whole PSN fiasco so this affects absolutely nobody.
[QUOTE=scotland1;32743226]Sony made it mandatory to change your password after the whole PSN fiasco so this affects absolutely nobody.[/QUOTE]
This would mean that the accounts "compromised" here must not have been used since the update if their passwords were still valid surely? I can't remember exactly, but didn't we have to pick a new password, which could not match the previous at all?
[QUOTE=hexpunK;32743257]This would mean that the accounts "compromised" here must not have been used since the update if their passwords were still valid surely? I can't remember exactly, but didn't we have to pick a new password, which could not match the previous at all?[/QUOTE]
Yes. If their password wasn't changed then the account must be unused.
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