unfunnyryan Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 (edited) http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/04/sony-admits-utter-psn-failure-your-personal-data-has-been-stolen.ars TL;DR Sony hates you and all your personal data is in the hands of someone else. Possibly your credit card info too. With the number of large security breeches in the past few months, like Gawker Media, Epsilon, and now this, its very upsetting that users personal information is not being taken seriously enough. In this day and age, it would not break any of these companies to put more effort into protecting users data. BUT ITS ALL OKAY. Sony has said sorry. Discuss. Edited May 3, 2011 by unfunnyryan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitrousbird Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 I don't think I used any personal info signing up with my PSN account. The email address isn't even valid now. I am pissed the PSN network is still down, as this shit is taking way too long to fix. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImUrOBGYN Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 I don't think I used any personal info signing up with my PSN account. The email address isn't even valid now. I am pissed the PSN network is still down, as this shit is taking way too long to fix. Supposedly, they're redoing the network to better protect form this ever happening again. Anyone else also notice the sheer coincidence of XBox Live's little event the day this shit happened? Hmm... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRed05 Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 I'm thinking about contacting one of the credit bureaus and have them put my shit on fraud alert. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Brian Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 "but it's free so that makes it better than xbox live" right? ha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyM3rC Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 Supposedly, they're redoing the network to better protect form this ever happening again. Anyone else also notice the sheer coincidence of XBox Live's little event the day this shit happened? Hmm... Yeah, Microsoft was behind it all! I foresee the sales of failboxes skyrocketing in the next 3 weeks. Also, what the fuck Sony? Seriously guys? We'll see how long it takes for a massive class-action suit to materialize, and a new disclaimer-rich PSN to pop up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pat Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 XBL Says: Hey PSN, tell me how my ass taste. But for reals, I have a PS3 too, and I think I have bought a few things off of the store. My 360 gets more use anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJ Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 Luckily the credit card I have used is now cancelled. The email address is only used to sign up for things. The nly thing I am pissed about is that I STILL cannot get Netflix to work. I have tried the "workaround" for a total of about 3 hours and cannot get it to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Alex- Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 I fired up the PS3 a few nights ago for the first time in months and saw where the network was down and turned it back off. I've never bought anything on there so I'm not too concerned. Although this isn't a PS3 vs Xbox debate (yet), once Forza 4 gets closer to being released I'll probably renew my Live account that expired in November. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRed05 Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 "but it's free so that makes it better than xbox live" right? ha. You sound like a Mac fag. "Yeah Mac's never get viruses" That's cause who the hell wants to spend time creating viruses for all 5 people who use it. Xbox live members = ~30million PSN members = over 70 million. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bicranium Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 PSN members = over 70 million. Damn... that means every single person who ever bought a PS3 goes on PSN. Plus 20 million more. Impressive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRed05 Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 Damn... that means every single person who ever bought a PS3 goes on PSN. Plus 20 million more. Impressive. That's how many accounts were effected according to Sony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Brian Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 You sound like a Mac fag. "Yeah Mac's never get viruses" That's cause who the hell wants to spend time creating viruses for all 5 people who use it. Xbox live members = ~30million PSN members = over 70 million. I could care less I just like how mad you get Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRed05 Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 I could care less I just like how mad you get Mad? Me? Naah...bra. I haven't even turned on my PS3 in forever, I had no idea the network was even down. PSN could catch the right the hell on fire and I would not give a single fuck. I just hope no one tries to hax my bank account. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitrousbird Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 Luckily the credit card I have used is now cancelled. The email address is only used to sign up for things. The nly thing I am pissed about is that I STILL cannot get Netflix to work. I have tried the "workaround" for a total of about 3 hours and cannot get it to work. I have used Netflix the past 3 nights. I just logged in with my PSN email and password. I sometimes have to try a couple of times but it has always let me log in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1fast5gp Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 Damn... that means every single person who ever bought a PS3 goes on PSN. Plus 20 million more. Impressive. You do realize you can have more than 1 PSN account on a PS3 right? But on that note, the onlything I have been using the PS3 for netflix. I do most of my gaming on my PC now, I can't stand playing FPS games with a controller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verse Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 I have used Netflix the past 3 nights. I just logged in with my PSN email and password. I sometimes have to try a couple of times but it has always let me log in. Same here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pat Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 There are also PSP's, and the Xperia play as well, that have PSN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJ Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 I have used Netflix the past 3 nights. I just logged in with my PSN email and password. I sometimes have to try a couple of times but it has always let me log in. Same here. I have everything updated and just plain will not let me. I am able to get to my queue, but when I try to load a movie it errors out when I have to cancel after getting the network down mssg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerrodh Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 You do realize you can have more than 1 PSN account on a PS3 right? But on that note, the onlything I have been using the PS3 for netflix. I do most of my gaming on my PC now, I can't stand playing FPS games with a controller. I was going to say lol... there is probably 40 million random accounts that are doubles for someone a girlfriends, kids, etc. And they are all free.... xbl has 30 million paying accounts. I didnt want to say it.... but you get what you pay for. :lolguy: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bicranium Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 You do realize you can have more than 1 PSN account on a PS3 right? That's kinda my point. The accounts are free and you can make them as often as you like. There's nowhere near 77 million unique users on PSN. There aren't 30 million on Xbox Live either but that number is probably much closer to the truth than the PSN number because there's no point in creating free Xbox Live Silver accounts that can do basically nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superstangOH Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 They are a huge name why is this taking so long to fix...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unfunnyryan Posted April 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 They are a huge name why is this taking so long to fix...? Because they still don't know how deep the breech was. Leave it to sony to spend billions of dollars pioneering DRM, throwing money at the DMCA, and all kinds of copy protection on bluray, just to have abysmal database security. Their products are way more valuable to them than your information obviously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AWW$HEEET Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 Because they still don't know how deep the breech was. Leave it to sony to spend billions of dollars pioneering DRM, throwing money at the DMCA, and all kinds of copy protection on bluray, just to have abysmal database security. Their products are way more valuable to them than your information obviously. someone convinced a sys admin to install malware on a system, and they were able to steal the database. the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
99FLHRCI Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 You sound like a Mac fag. "Yeah Mac's never get viruses" That's cause who the hell wants to spend time creating viruses for all 5 people who use it. Xbox live members = ~30million PSN members = over 70 million. I don't think it was a quantity issue that caused PSN to be attacked. From what I read the attack was initiated by Anonymous because they were mad at Sony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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