Sony To Offer Free Identity Theft Monitoring

olsmeister writes "Several weeks after having the PlayStation Network hacked, and apologizing to users for the breach, Sony is offering $1 million in identity theft protection for users who sign up before June 18th. The protection is being offered through Debix and is called AllClear ID Plus. This appears to be some kind of custom plan especially for Sony, as their normal offerings are called AllClear ID Free and AllClear ID Pro."

Comments

Let's give away our personal info again!!

[SomeoneGotMyNick]

So, when we sign up for this (somewhat unknown) Debix service, can we look forward to our full identities being stolen in the near future?

Re:Let's give away our personal info again!!

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Are you calling all nine of these photogenic-but-irrelevant stock-footage models liars? For shame, cad. And they have "secure phone call" technology! That's, like, CIA shit, man. Totally trustworthy. I, for one, eagerly await the chance to enter all SSNs and CCNs into an improperly secured form when I get an email from the "s0ny h3rbal cust0mer Protection Se4vice" asking me to verify.

Rights

[swilver]

What rights am I signing away by doing this?

Re:Rights

[ProppaT]

This right here is what I've been waiting to see. You know there will be a new EULA. If Sony is smart, they won't include anything like that in the EULA (the last thing they need is more bad press), but I'm definitely waiting to read a lawyer's take on the EULA before I hit accept (normally I wouldn't, but in this case you know there's going to be a dozen or so breakdowns of the whole thing...and, besides, I'm too lazy to read it myself).

We really need to rework this whole EULA agreement deal. If companies are going to bombard us with new ones on a regular basis, they need to be bulleted points confined to a one page or so document. We already spent a ton of money on these dumb consoles, we shouldn't have to be required to read a 30 page legal document every time Sony decides to patch a bug in their software.

Insurance

[Tsingi]

If I understand this correctly, Sony will sell you insurance to the tune that, if doing business with them gets you ripped off, you get reimbursed?
And a year for free!
I have the lifetime policy, I don't do business with them.

Re:yeah

[somersault]

I think he knows that. This is Sony making a deal with a 3rd party which deals in identity theft to help out people who may be affected by the PSN hack.

Despite it being something that they should really be obliged to do after their screwup, and therefore they shouldn't be congratulated too much, it's also something that the "Sony is the devil" types around here wouldn't actually expect them to do. I think that people should at least recognise that they're doing the right thing here.

Since it seems to be official (although it could potentially be a social engineering trick by whoever hacked the network, since they presumably have the details to upload to the PSN blog, etc), and free, I probably will sign up, despite having already cancelled the card I used for PSN stuff.