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Anonymous Claims To Have Hacked Sony PSN Again

Posted by samzenpus on from the we're-back dept.

hypnosec writes "Anonymous has claimed a new attack on Sony's PlayStation Network, and this time around it seems they have information from nearly 10 million user accounts. As a proof of the hack they dumped more than 3000 credentials online in the form of a pastebin post. The notorious hacktivist group is claiming that the entire set of hacked credentials contains over 10 million PSN accounts and that the file is of around 50GB." Update: 08/16 13:12 GMT by S : Sony has denied this claim.

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  1. Screw you, anonymous! by Soluzar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Those assholes really need to think about who they are hurting with this crap. It is the users, like me. I've got a substantial amount of PS3 games, both from PSN and retail. I just want to use them in peace without veing harassed by cyber-terrorists!

    1. Re:Screw you, anonymous! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      That's the thing about poor security, Anonymous isn't the only one that was able to access the credentials. Perhaps you should be wondering why Sony isn't storing your hashed password in a salted format -- it appears to be a SHA1 hash represented in base64. Who else had access to your information that didn't advertise it to the world, and for how long? That's where your concern needs to be.

    2. Re:Screw you, anonymous! by Xest · · Score: 4, Informative

      Sure, and I want to live my life without Sony lobbying governments to fuck up the internet, but thanks to people like you giving them money I can't.

      Besides, it's not as if Sony has a great track record of keeping your data safe so why do you keep putting it in their hands in the first place? Honestly, if a company can't notice 50gb of sensitive data flying out of it's network it has to have a pretty high degree of incompetence.

    3. Re:Screw you, anonymous! by Caerdwyn · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Thanking Anonymous for stealing my credit card info to demonstrate Sony's/Stratfor's/whatever's poor IT practices is akin to thanking an arsonist for burning down my house to demonstrate that it's flammable.

      There's not a shred of morality or good intention in Anonymous. None. They're vandals and thieves who never got over resenting authority figures when they were 13. Having the ability to run Metasploit against a video game host doesn't change the basic mindset.

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      Everybody gets what the majority deserves.
  2. Do we need to draw attention to this on Slashdot? by ctheme · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Even if this is true, and PSN was compromised, what's the point? This benefits no good cause, and Sony isn't even the one being exposed here -- its users are.

    Anonymous is repeating the mistakes of Cablegate; releasing private information of parties who didn't ask to be involved. That's bullying, not hacktivism.

  3. Whoops! by phrackwulf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sonic is really going to have to hurry to get all those rings back! I hate this level!

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    What would Richard Feynman do, if he were here right now? He'd do some math and he'd follow through!
  4. Fail. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Proven false.

    * the document of leaked data linked to in the Twitter account appears to be identical to one posted on the Internet back in March.
    * Anonymous has deleted the Tweet claiming that it hacked the PSN.
    * Direct statement from Sony: "We’ve confirmed that the recent claim that PlayStation Network was illegally hacked and that customer passwords and email addresses were accessed is completely false."

  5. Sony's says this is fake by deadbeefcafe · · Score: 5, Informative
    http://www.videogamer.com/news/psn_hack_claims_are_false_says_sony.html

    Last night someone claiming to be a member of Anonymous posted what was alleged to be information obtained from 50GB of compromised PSN data, but it turned out the data was the same as that released last year when PSN was hacked. "We've confirmed that the recent claim that PlayStation Network was illegally hacked and that customer passwords and email addresses were accessed is completely false," assured Sony in a statement.

  6. Probably not true.. Sony has best security by rgbrenner · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't imagine this is true.. Sony has always been on the cutting-edge of security tech. I mean this is the company that designed the text-based CAPTCHA:
    http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/jsp/forms/generateCaptcha.jsp

    Right click is disabled so it's impossible to crack.

  7. Re:Why do people still use Sony by andydread · · Score: 5, Informative

    erm.. how about installing rootkits on people's computers disabling their CD drives in the name of "stopping piracy" then having the arrogance to claim that "people shouldn't worry about it, most of them commoners don't even know what a rootkit is so why all the fuss?" How about bankroling some of the most Draconian censorship laws for the Internet? PIPA, SOPA, ACTA, DMCA, PROTECT-IP all bankrolled and lobbied for by Sony and friends. Not to mention their relentless attempts to proprietize media formats. But wait... there's more! They sell you a device then remove features that you paid for after the fact then changed their EULA so that if you cannot sue them when they screw up. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Sony used to be a good company when they only made hardware. The day Sony got into the content business is the day Sony went sour.

  8. Re:Why do people still use Sony by Anrego · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Depends on which people you are talking about.

    The public at large doesn't give a shit about this kind of thing, which isn't really all that unreasonable. The slashdot crowd is very privacy/security conscious.. the general publis is not. Lest we forget when the network was hacked the first time around, the biggest, loudest complaint was not that CC info was leaked, along with personal details, but that the network was down and people couldn’t play the games they paid for.

    Even the rootkit thing. Again, the biggest reaction from the general public, even with all the news coverage, was “well that was naughty of them..”.

    Almost all companies are evil. Sony happens to be evil in a way that is perceived as particularly bad by the Slashdot community, but perceived as status quo by the general public.

    And of course, even if everyone that even remembers the rootkit thing stopped using Sony for the rest of their life and recommended to all their friends that they do the same, wouldn't make a dent in the profit statements. Which means they don't care about us either!

  9. So, the headline ought to be by JavaBear · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Someone claiming to be from Anonymous claims to have hacked PSN."

  10. Re:Why do people still use Sony by repvik · · Score: 4, Informative

    There was no hack. This is the same credentials list, posted in march: http://pastebin.com/hhU8Q9di