Sony: 10 Million Credit Cards May Have Been Exposed

Posted by timothy on Sunday May 1, 2011 @11:04AM from the translucency-failure dept.

WrongSizeGlass writes "The LA Times is reporting that Sony has revealed that 10 million credit card accounts may have been exposed two weeks ago when a hacker broke into the company's computers in San Diego and stole data from 77 million PlayStation Network accounts. Sony said it will provide credit card protection services for the 10 million customers whose data were compromised. Sony last week said it had encrypted credit card data, but not other account information, including names, addresses, email addresses and birth dates."

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I'm sure it will all be okay. by senorpoco · 2011-05-01 11:13 · Score: 3, Funny

Using the credit cards will install a DRM rootkit on their computers right?
New Information Revealed by rudy_wayne · 2011-05-01 11:46 · Score: 5, Funny

It has been revealed that the whole problem began when a PSN admin inserted a Sony music CD. The installed rootkit then allowed hackers to access the network.