Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Sucks to be Sony right now. Or a PSN subscriber.

So, Playstation Network has been down for a week now, since the 19th.  Now, they've come to the conclusion that personal information has (probably) been compromised.

The tl;dr of the story is that if you've provided them your credit card number, it might have been leaked.  Also, if you use the same username and password elsewhere, then change them.

THIS IS A GOOD REASON NOT TO USE THE SAME PASSWORD EVERYWHERE.  So was the engadget hack.  I love password expiration day at work, expecially the arguement, 'but i've had this password for years, and i use the same one for everything!'.

Anyhow.  My rant for the night.

28 comments:

  1. didn't know about the credit card risk. :(

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  2. Its all over the news in Japan when i streamed it through my computer, really scary though, ima go change all my passwords now

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  3. Sounds like the problems for them have just started.

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  4. According to everyone else, credit card info probably hasn't been leaked, so most of us are in the clear on that. I think you might scare some people like that. Anyways, people who are stupid with their passwords deserve what they get, there's no reason not to have a different password for everything, and its not even hard with programs like Keepass.

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  5. so glad i dont play things like that online xD i dont even have anything above a PS2 xD

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  6. It sucks that Sony didn't even let its users know about this until a week after it happened.

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  7. Sony probably just lost another few million customers to xbox lol ;D

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  8. Someone broke Sony....and their internet. Ha ha!

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  9. first time i'm happy i don't have any sony devices in my house.

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  10. That's why I only used card numbers I get off the internet for services like the PSN. You simply can't trust people, otherwise.

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  11. This is why you should play PC

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  12. yeah man, heard all about this on the news this morning, scary stuff !!

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  13. Yes it does, especially since private info has been compromised.

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  14. Great post, glad I don't use a PS3.

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  15. "THIS IS A GOOD REASON NOT TO USE THE SAME PASSWORD EVERYWHERE"

    I completely agree. People need to understand that.

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  16. I'm always wary about giving out my personal information... exhibit A. lol

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  17. Just got an email from them warning about my credit card. Its not on! :@
    Great post, followed!

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  18. Even though I know that I need different passwords for everywhere, I still don't haha. I just know that this is a lesson I'm going to have to learn the hard way. Good post, I'm following :)

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  19. maybe now sony will put a little time into PSN

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  20. Good post which makes an excellent argument for using different passwords and changing them regularly.

    Following.

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  21. Very embarrassing for them. Hope they get sued for tons

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  22. I wonder if anyone lost any money through this?

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  23. kinda annoying couldn't play online for awhile

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