Sony - "Your personal details may have been compromised"

[Mark]

[quote="FlipMode"]^ PSN has that too with pre paid PSN cards, but it uses real money, so if you buy £5 card, you get exactly £5.[/quote]

That's a definiate advantage of PSN. With Microsoft points, it's hard to keep track of how much you're spending!

[quote="FlipMode"]I do not really see where the you get what you pay for quote applies to this, if you take say windows and Linux, one is free and the other costs money right? Yet those are both suspect to hacking, the same with banks as well, I do not pay my bank to store my money but I know full well it can be hacked into and stolen from.[/quote]

Well I like to think that the money I pay for XBL Gold goes somewhere Surely at least some of it goes into R&D for better security? Anyway, I've been pleased with XBL for my few years' subcription so far. No downtime I can think of, good connection speeds always etc.

Still though, I've many friends with PS3s and feel for those who may have had credit card details compromised...

[Wrightfan]

Sony announced today that the PSN will be back this week and that everyone will be getting a free month of Playstation Plus among other things:
http://kotaku.com/#!5797412/sony-playst ... -this-week

[FlipMode]

Oh well that is nice of them, I am just looking forward to finally being able to play Portal 2 cooperative but I will gladly take any free bonuses haha.

[Wrightfan]

More info stolen from Sony, this time from their PC division:
http://kotaku.com/more-than-12700-credi ... ertainment

[FlipMode]

That is such bad PR. My guess is SOE used the same security module as with the PSN.

[Panda-chan]

*cough* It was Anonymous: http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.co ... ils-of.php

[FlipMode]

I was just talking to a person on Facebook about that, those guys are literally the lamest people I have ever heard of (on the internet).
I hope the actual individuals get caught though, they should not be able to think they can just hack into whatever the heck they want and get away with it. Their Iran campaign is stupid and so is this.

Enough about those attention seekers though, Sony are on track to be back up by Friday apparently (we we we so exited)

[Wrightfan]

"Those people" are still denying it and they love attention. If they say they didn't do it...they probably didn't.

My bet is an inside job.

[WildSimba]

Glad I have a PSP and not a PS3. BTW, Anon might be bad, but I doubt they'd put millions of people in such a situation.

[Panda-chan]

@Wrightfan: lol Anonymous is hardly a unified force. Even the anons over at 4chan disdain the Anonymous that wear Guy Fawkes masks and protest at gatherings. They claim to be "legion" when in reality they are only thousands of fragmented clusters of anonymous trolls that pursue their own activities.