The Glade 4.0

This is gonna hurt Sony pretty badly.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Another interesting revelation is the fact that some of the data was encrypted, and some wasn't. "The entire credit card table was encrypted and we have no evidence that credit card data was taken. The personal data table, which is a separate data set, was not encrypted, but was, of course, behind a very sophisticated security system that was breached in a malicious attack," Seybold wrote. He also pointed out that the information was behind both physical and electronic safeguards, with means the attack may have been carried out by an employee.

In terms of your credit card information and password, Seybold repeated our advice to search for an e-mail from "DoNotReply@ac.playstation.net," which will give you the first and last digits of the credit card you have on file with Sony. A coming update will prompt you to change your password when you log back into the PlayStation Network.

I canceled my debit card

Xbox Live, PSN, WoW, Amazon, eBay, hell we can go all the way back to AOL and Compuserve.

Sooner or later this was going to happen. The law of averages is rather specific in that regard. One of these networks was going to fail, and surrender all of its data to a hacking attempt. Sooner or later, someone is going to get lucky and crack security.

Now, unfortunately, that doesn't absolve Sony of any guilt. Blizzard has proven they can handle security on that scale. Microsoft has proven they can handle security on that scale. A company like Amazon that isn't even a software developer has proven they can handle that type of security. Why couldn't Sony? It isn't like Sony doesn't hire people with that set of technical skills.

Wow, I always love the chicken little reactions to stuff like this. Seriously, if your data exists there's a most definite chance of it getting hacked, honestly I would bet Sony's existing security measures were just as secure as say your bank. Aside from having no outside connection everything is hackable provided some douche wants to spend enough time trying to, going to another company isn't going to make you any more safe, probably less because this is causing them to make their network significantly more secure than it was before.

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PlayStation(R)Network

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Valued PlayStation(R)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, zip), country,
email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity password and login,
and handle/PSN online ID. It is also possible that your profile data,
including purchase history and billing address (city, state, zip),
and your PlayStation Network/Qriocity password security answers may
have been obtained. 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 at this time that credit
card data was taken, 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 you that your credit
card number (excluding security code) and expiration date may have
been obtained.

Um, I don't think anyone here is suddenly going to go "off the grid" and withdraw from online transactions. The point here isn't that we're afraid our information will be compromised. The point is that OUR INFORMATION HAS BEEN COMPROMISED. This isn't a "chicken little" scenario, this is actual "someone out there most definitely has my ubiquitous Internet nom de plume, the standard password that is associated with it, along with various other information like my billing address, and most likely, my credit card number and security code." We're well past "oh, you're just overreacting in canceling your card and changing your passwords."

honestly I would bet Sony's existing security measures were just as secure as say your bank

Wow, I always love the chicken little reactions to stuff like this. Seriously, if your data exists there's a most definite chance of it getting hacked, honestly I would bet Sony's existing security measures were just as secure as say your bank. Aside from having no outside connection everything is hackable provided some douche wants to spend enough time trying to, going to another company isn't going to make you any more safe, probably less because this is causing them to make their network significantly more secure than it was before.

... and most likely, my credit card number and security code." We're well past "oh, you're just overreacting in canceling your card and changing your passwords."