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Sony Targeted Yet Again; Thwarts Attackers This Time

Posted by Unknown on from the script-kiddies-gone-wild dept.

alphadogg writes with an excerpt from a Network World article: "Sony suspended 93,000 user accounts on several of its gaming and entertainment networks after unauthorized login attempts on those accounts. The attempts occurred on the PlayStation Network, Sony Entertainment Network, and Sony Online Entertainment, and the company says that login information likely acquired from other sources was tested en masse on the networks. Only a 'small number' of the attempts were successful, and no credit card information was leaked. ... Sony Chief Information Security Officer Philip Reitinger said that 'less than one tenth of one percent' of the networks' users may have been affected."

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  1. Re:Didn't they say the same thing last time? by Sockatume · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, last time they kept quiet about the scale, nature, and results of the attack, while this time they've announced the scale (90,000+ users), nature (user/password attempts), and results (some accounts are compromised) of the attack. It would appear that they have learned at least a little.

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  2. Re:"Sony Chief Information Security Officer" by Viol8 · · Score: 2

    Well at least he could foresee what hacks were coming and when!

    Couldn't he...? Whaddyamean no?

  3. 93,000 DoS'd accounts by sgt+scrub · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sounds like the attack was successful to me.

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  4. Re:"Sony Chief Information Security Officer" by asylumx · · Score: 2

    So then he's "SCISO" right? (Schizo... )

  5. Misleading Summary by sangreal66 · · Score: 2

    The summary states that there 93,000 login attempts and that a small number of the attempts were successful. This is false. There was an undisclosed number of attempts, and 93,000 accounts were successfully compromised. From Sony's own statement:

    There were approximately 93,000 accounts globally (PSN/SEN: approximately 60,000 accounts; SOE: approximately 33,000) where the attempts succeeded in verifying those accounts’ valid sign-in IDs and passwords, and we have temporarily locked these accounts.

  6. Re:93 million accounts? by Gription · · Score: 2

    In Grand Tourismo 5 there is a feature where the game gives you a "birthday gift car" that was produced in the year of your birth. Lots of people were making multiple fake accounts to try and get really rare and expensive cars. Once they got the car they would give it as a gift to their main account.
    (PSN patched the game so people couldn't trade expensive cars any more so that glitch is gone.)

    I could easily believe there are lots of fake accounts out there for similar reasons.