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Sony Breach Gets Worse: 24.6 Million Compromised Accounts At SOE
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information from approximately 24.6 million SOE accounts may have been stolen, as well as certain information from an outdated database from 2007. The information from the outdated database that may have been stolen includes approximately 12,700 non-US credit or debit card numbers and expiration dates (but not credit card security codes),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."
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.
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.
I haven't played everquest since 2002 and I got a notice. Luckily for me all that credit card information is outdated and wrong. Event the mailing address is wrong. How someone was able to access this data is beyond me. I cannot, for any reason, think of any justification Sony could have to store something in a manner that a developer could access at this level.
Sony is going to have one hell of a class action lawsuit in it's hands.
If the person who stole the SOE accounts could get in contact with me, I've been trying to reset my SOE password for 2 months now, and it hasn't worked. Could you tell me what my password is?
I haven't done business with Sony Online Entertainment at all for over a decade, and I'm apparently effected. I subscribed to Everquest way back in the day, but dropped somewhere around 2001. I just yesterday got an email from them that my personal information had been lost. So, don't feel so superior...even if you started boycotting them over the rootkits, they kept your information from before then, and then lost it to hackers.
I'm one of those who have been boycotting Sony since the rootkit fiasco but I'm not going to get preachy about it. For me, it's not some kind of crusade to get them to mend their ways or die, it's actually rather pure self-interest - I just know that they can't screw me over. I do wish a few more people would take note and Sony would mend their ways as a reaction. They used to be a decent company, their hardware was always top notch and I loved the PS1, it's just a bit sad to see them go down this route of profit above all.