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Sony Breach Gets Worse: 24.6 Million Compromised Accounts At SOE

Posted by Soulskill on from the over-100-million-served dept.

An anonymous reader writes with an update to yesterday morning's news that Sony Online Entertainment's game service was taken offline to investigate a potential data breach related to the PSN intrusion. SOE has now said that they too suffered a major theft of user data. "... personal information from approximately 24.6 million SOE accounts may have been stolen, as well as certain information from an outdated database from 2007. The information from the outdated database that may have been stolen includes approximately 12,700 non-US credit or debit card numbers and expiration dates (but not credit card security codes), and about 10,700 direct debit records of certain customers in Austria, Germany, Netherlands and Spain."

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  1. They are upset... by houstonbofh · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They are just pissed that somebody stole a lot of personal data, and took over a bunch of computer systems, and it wasn't them.

  2. Best Practices by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hey guys, let's keep around credit/debit card billing data from 2007 all online. Deleting it after 6 months of inactivity could hurt sales!11! There's no cost to keeping it around, nothing that would pass an accountant anyway. Let's pay ourselves a bonus for our forward thinking.