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Sony Online Entertainment Services Follow PSN Down

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the everything-is-totally-fine dept.

nam37 writes "Sony Online Entertainment's various services seem to be down and a message on the official site does not give much information on the particulars. According to a short post on the site, the services were taken down after an investigation revealed a deeper 'intrusion' than expected at first. This is the first we have heard that Sony's MMORPG arm had some sort of security breach. This could be part of Sony's plans to beef up security for the PlayStation Network, but this message seems to indicate that something more serious going on."

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  1. It was the Sony DRM! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Someone tried to play a Sony music CD in one of their Windows servers during a maintenance window, and the SBRK (Sony-blessed rootkit) decided it had found some pirate MP3...

  2. So, no Star Wars Galaxies?? by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    That will really piss off dozens of people, you know.

    --
    SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
  3. Re:Ya know I just by eepok · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not Sony that may have irreparable damage done to them... it's the users.

  4. Not surprising by j1976 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have gotten my SOE account "hacked" (using SOE's terms). So has a close friend, and several other people I know of. Ok, if it had only been me I would have assumed it was an isolated incident even though I can't even begin to guess how my password got out in the wild. When this many people got their accounts taken over in such a limited time, I do no longer believe this was a problem on my side. However, trying to get anything other than "update your antivirus" out of the SOE customer support is an exercise in futility.

    My qualified guess is that the recent security breaches aren't in any way exceptions: Most likely Sony/SOE have had security problems for several months now and have tried to keep a lid on it. But as said, that's just my guess.

  5. Many months ago by __aaqvdr516 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A few months ago my Station account was hacked. I had not used it in around 5 years. On that day my SWG account was reactivated with a monthly subscription using a credit card with my name on the account. The credit card had an address listed in a state I've never lived in. I saw the same story in forum threads when I was looking for information on how this happened.

    I'm betting that they've been testing the water with the accounts they scraped for months.