77 Million Accounts Stolen From Playstation Network

Runaway1956 was one of many users to continue to update us about the intrusion we've been following this week. "Sony is warning its millions of PlayStation Network users to watch out for identity-theft scams after hackers breached its security and plundered the user names, passwords, addresses, birth dates, and other information used to register accounts. Sony's stunning admission came six days after the PlayStation Network was taken down following what the company described as an 'external intrusion'. The stolen information may also include payment-card data, purchase history, billing addresses, and security answers used to change passwords, Sony said on Tuesday. The company plans to keep the hacked system offline for the time being, and to restore services gradually. The advisory also applies to users of Sony's related Qriocity network."

Comments

DRM

[UninformedCoward]

Hows that online requirement DRM working out for you guys?

~UC

Sony isn't using the term "massive identity theft"

[elrous0]

They're calling it an "unexpected mass friendship opportunity."

Re:passwords?

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

My DARE officer told me that hash is illegal, and my health teacher says that salt causes high blood pressure...

Re:passwords?

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Are you implying that wasting time on slashdot is abnormal behavior for a fungus? The haploid glomeromycetes that fused to form my zygospore were always hassling me about it: "Are you going to sit there reproducing asexually in front of the computer like some pathetic diploid man-child all your life? Why don't you grow a fruiting body, and make something of yourself?"

Re:passwords?

[smelch]

Like my wife. That's a lie, she never lets me in :-(.