PSN Users Reporting Hundreds of Dollars Stolen From Them - Polidicks

Good thing i don't have a PS3. Feel sorry for the people at Sony and their customers. PC Gaming Master Race

[quote]PlayStation(R)Network =================================== Valued PlayStation Network/Qriocity Customer: We have discovered that between April 17 and April 19, 2011, certain PlayStation Network and Qriocity service user account information was compromised in connection with an illegal and unauthorized intrusion into our network. In response to this intrusion, we have: 1) Temporarily turned off PlayStation Network and Qriocity services; 2) Engaged an outside, recognized security firm to conduct a full and complete investigation into what happened; and 3) Quickly taken steps to enhance security and strengthen our network infrastructure by rebuilding our system to provide you with greater protection of your personal information. We greatly appreciate your patience, understanding and goodwill as we do whatever it takes to resolve these issues as quickly and efficiently as practicable. Although we are still investigating the details of this incident, we believe that an unauthorized person has obtained the following information that you provided: name, address (city, state/province, zip or postal code), country, email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity password, login, password security answers, and handle/PSN online ID. It is also possible that your profile data may have been obtained, including purchase history and billing address (city, state/province, zip or postal code). If you have authorized a sub-account for your dependent, the same data with respect to your dependent may have been obtained. While there is no evidence that credit card data was taken at this time, we cannot rule out the possibility. If you have provided your credit card data through PlayStation Network or Qriocity, out of an abundance of caution we are advising that your credit card number (excluding security code) and expiration date may also have been obtained. For your security, we encourage you to be especially aware of email, telephone, and postal mail scams that ask for personal or sensitive information. Sony will not contact you in any way, including by email, asking for your credit card number, social security, tax identification or similar number or other personally identifiable information. If you are asked for this information, you can be confident Sony is not the entity asking. When the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services are fully restored, we strongly recommend that you log on and change your password. Additionally, if you use your PlayStation Network or Qriocity user name or password for other unrelated services or accounts, we strongly recommend that you change them as well. To protect against possible identity theft or other financial loss, we encourage you to remain vigilant, to review your account statements and to monitor your credit or similar types of reports. We thank you for your patience as we complete our investigation of this incident, and we regret any inconvenience. Our teams are working around the clock on this, and services will be restored as soon as possible. Sony takes information protection very seriously and will continue to work to ensure that additional measures are taken to protect personally identifiable information. Providing quality and secure entertainment services to our customers is our utmost priority. Please contact us at 1-800-345-7669 should you have any additional questions. Sincerely, Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Network Entertainment[/quote] Email above,

Estimated time PSN will be back up?

[QUOTE=Arc Nova;29484718]Estimated time PSN will be back up?[/QUOTE] "within a week"

Good thing PSN denied my credit information about a week ago for some reason, when I was trying to make a purchase on the PSP.

[QUOTE=Mother Fucker;29482168]That's not a fake email address, they've been using that one for their Store updates for awhile now. And that email is basically what their FAQ says on their website anyway.[/QUOTE] It totally is a bullshit email address, but it keeps mentioning that I'm protected under Massachusetts law. I live in Illinois. Also there's this little number right here: [quote=the email]For your security, we encourage you to be especially aware of email, telephone and postal mail scams that ask for personal or sensitive information. Sony will not contact you in any way, including by email, asking for your credit card number, social security number or other personally identifiable information. If you are asked for this information, you can be confident Sony is not the entity asking. When the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services are fully restored, we strongly recommend that you log on and change your password. Additionally, if you use your PlayStation Network or Qriocity user name or password for other unrelated services or accounts, we strongly recommend that you change them, as well.[/quote] Then later on it asks for those exact details. [editline]28th April 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Pasalaqcua;29484597]Email above,[/QUOTE] What was the email address that sent you that?

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;29484215]For starters, we don't even know yet who's behind this, let alone if they're connected to the OtherOS bollocks. That's getting less likely anyway with this whole credit card scheme that's going on. Besides, even if they were, this is completely unjustified, no matter how you put it. Being pissed off about it, fine. Doing something of this proportion crosses several lines however and in no way helps your case.[/QUOTE] Yep, I agree. However, I believe the whole point here--unless I'm mistaken--is to piss off and embarrass Sony in the most unimaginable way possible, and I believe they (whoever is behind all this) succeeded... Of course, that doesn't give them the right to actually steal from people who has absolutely nothing to do with Sony in the first place (that is, if the same people who got ahold of all the CC data is the same stealing the money from the accounts). All in all, a really, [B]really[/B] embarrassing time for Sony execs. Looking forward to see what's going to be the outcome of this shitstorm... and how many heads will roll because of this fuckup.

Huh, seems like they only got something on my US-account(which I only use to download demo's). I got that scam-mail on my alternate gmail account, which is linked to my US account.

Should I be glad my PSN account is linked to a now-deleted e-mail address?

Depends on wether there where any cc info on that account.

from what I can tell via old emails about PSN wallet funding only my old debit card was used and that bad boy already expired, have I gotten off lightly?

They're saying it's impossible for the hackers to have gotten all the credit card info. Read the article [url]http://www.gamespot.com/news/6310549.html?tag=latestheadlines%3Btitle%3B1[/url] If that's true then the FPers who claimed that they got something taken are a bunch of douchebags.

[QUOTE=Darmok;29488098]from what I can tell via old emails about PSN wallet funding only my old debit card was used and that bad boy already expired, have I gotten off lightly?[/QUOTE] I have heard of MS taking money for xbl off of expired cc's, so I don't know.

[QUOTE=mobrockers2;29488758]I have heard of MS taking money for xbl off of expired cc's, so I don't know.[/QUOTE] If you heard that, it's probably false, because you're an 11'er, MS won't do such things and because that's just plain illegal.

I MAY have used my debit card to buy an old PS1 classic for my PSP, and I have no clue which of my many variations of the same password I used is the one I used for PSN, so I don't know which websites I should change my password for. However, I just checked my bank info and I have had no money stolen. Of course, it could just be a matter of time, so I'll order a new debit card anyways...

Wow, I was almost going to buy something on the psn before all of this happened. Really glad I didn't. Though, I have close friends who buy alot of stuff on it. I really hope everything works out for everyone in the end.:smith:

When Sony's stocks drop really low, I shall buy Sony!

[QUOTE=joost1120;29489119]If you heard that, it's probably false, because you're an 11'er, MS won't do such things and because that's just plain illegal.[/QUOTE] And completely possible!

[QUOTE=mobrockers2;29488758]I have heard of MS taking money for xbl off of expired cc's, so I don't know.[/QUOTE] The whole point of a card being expired is that it doesn't work how can they take money off it?

[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;29458111]No one gives two shits about Linux, it's all about the custom firmware mods and :airquote:backup:airquote: managers created by dumbass teenagers who want to be famous to let people [b]steal[/b] games. There is no "homebrew", it's all stealing.[/QUOTE] Try blocking packets of a malicious attack based on packet content on a windows server without going through a massively overcomplicated installation of some vague and unknown firewall software. [editline].[/editline] Oh wait, you can't. Linux > Windows for almost everything server related. Desktop linux isn't bad either (Though I'll stick with Windows for that.)

[QUOTE=FlapadarV2;29490235]Try blocking packets of a malicious attack based on packet content on a windows server without going through a massively overcomplicated installation of some vague and unknown firewall software. [editline].[/editline] Oh wait, you can't. Linux > Windows for almost everything server related. Desktop linux isn't bad either (Though I'll stick with Windows for that.)[/QUOTE] Linux is amazing, we all know this.

[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;29458111]No one gives two shits about Linux, it's all about the custom firmware mods and :airquote:backup:airquote: managers created by dumbass teenagers who want to be famous to let people [b]steal[/b] games. There is no "homebrew", it's all stealing.[/QUOTE] You're kind of dumb. I used my old PS3 as a computer (Ubuntu) when OtherOS was still around.

[QUOTE=Headcrab54;29485430] What was the email address that sent you that?[/QUOTE] [email]PlayStation_Network@playstation-email.com[/email]

[QUOTE=Pasalaqcua;29491224][email]PlayStation_Network@playstation-email.com[/email][/QUOTE] I got one too.

[QUOTE=FlapadarV2;29490235]Try blocking packets of a malicious attack based on packet content on a windows server without going through a massively overcomplicated installation of some vague and unknown firewall software. [editline].[/editline] Oh wait, you can't. Linux > Windows for almost everything server related. Desktop linux isn't bad either (Though I'll stick with Windows for that.)[/QUOTE] Honestly, try doing it on Linux I like Linux alot, but compiling everything from source is dicks, you need to be a fucking rocket scientist to find out what the undocumented error you keep getting means My only experiace with it: "Okey im just gonna compile this with the included instructions, should be fine" *Runs make as instructions says* "Error 0x12345678" *One google search later* *No results* "Fuck this shit"

[QUOTE=FlapadarV2;29490235]Linux > Windows for almost everything server related.[/QUOTE] Don't let our fearless leader hear you say that. [editline]28th April 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Tobba;29492771]Honestly, try doing it on Linux I like Linux alot, but compiling everything from source is dicks, you need to be a fucking rocket scientist to find out what the undocumented error you keep getting means My only experiace with it: "Okey im just gonna compile this with the included instructions, should be fine" *Runs make as instructions says* "Error 0x12345678" *One google search later* *No results* "Fuck this shit"[/QUOTE] Most distros these days have a package manager of some form.

[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;29458111]No one gives two shits about Linux, it's all about the custom firmware mods and :airquote:backup:airquote: managers created by dumbass teenagers who want to be famous to let people [b]steal[/b] games. There is no "homebrew", it's all stealing.[/QUOTE] You do realize that the only reason the PS3 was cracked was because the OtherOS feature was removed? [QUOTE=hexpunK;29469898]You do have to give Sony some props. Their console was the last to be hacked this generation, their network was also the last, even if it was the biggest clusterfuck of dumb ever. They did something right to have lasted this long without a major security breach.[/QUOTE] Only because they appeased the people who have the skillset/determination to break past the hardware level so that others were able to analyze the rest of the system. I don't know how you can say the network lasted the longest since the console has only recently been open so that it could be analyzed further.

[QUOTE=Darkster;29495616]Only because they appeased the people who have the skillset/determination to break past the hardware level so that others were able to analyze the rest of the system. I don't know how you can say the network lasted the longest since the console has only recently been open so that it could be analyzed further.[/QUOTE] Right. That doesn't mean it didn't last the longest. The fact it took that long to even crack the console itself to a usable degree is something noteworthy.

[QUOTE=Darkster;29495616]You do realize that the only reason the PS3 was cracked was because the OtherOS feature was removed? Only because they appeased the people who have the skillset/determination to break past the hardware level so that others were able to analyze the rest of the system. I don't know how you can say the network lasted the longest since the console has only recently been open so that it could be analyzed further.[/QUOTE] The PS3 was cracked because someone wanted it cracked. OtherOS was just a coincidence and as far as I know, people were taking shots at PS3 before anyone even mentioned OtherOS. No matter what, there will always be someone out there smarter and more skilled than the one's who implement the security. The console needs to be hacked to see how it interacts with the network. After the hackers know how they communicate with one another, it's probably easy to figure out the rest. PS3 was the last console to get hacked, therefore the network lasted the longest.

Not cool any more. [editline]28th April 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Mr.T;29490013]When Sony's stocks drop really low, I shall buy Sony![/QUOTE] Enjoy your newfound lawsuits.