According to The Hindu, 2.2 million credit card numbers stolen from the Sony Playstation Network, complete with CVV numbers, are up for sale.
In the article, it's stated that Keven Stevens from Trend Micro had seen chatter on hacker networks about the sale of the information, for a reported $100,000.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
I'm Not Mad
Dear Sony,
I've been a Sony customer, and fan, for the longest of times. I have an 80s walkman, a 90s cd walkman, I bought the original Playstation, as well as the Playstation 2 and Playstation 3.
I've been a believer and enthusiast when it comes to digital content and being able to play immediately without having to leave the comfort of the couch. Less game boxes to take up space on the shelves, less plastic wrap to throw out. DLC has been pretty decent so far as well.
Steam, Impulse, the Playstation Network... all of these are great tools for gamers.
I also know that there is a lot of work, and some difficulty, in creating, maintaining and protecting such services. Notable outages of authentication servers, login servers and game servers have proven that there are downsides to an always on, digital game service.
I'm not mad that the Playstation Network has been down since the 20th of April.
I understand there are occasional outages, someone makes a mistake, a hacker finds a loophole or maybe servers just catch fire. It happens.
I'm not mad that there's a chance that not just my personal information has been stolen, but that potentially my credit card information as well.
Again, this can happen. I've had my debit card "swiped" before, and my account emptied.
The difference is, Sony, between that and what has happened to your network, is worlds apart. My bank informed me immediately. My money was replaced. My debit card was replaced. My account number was changed. My PIN was changed. All done in a short period of time, with as little inconvenience as possible.
I'm absolutely furious, Sony, that you took SIX days to disseminate this information. And you didn't even have the decency to contact us, we have to learn through gaming news media.
Yeah, Kotaku told me what you should have.
That's SIX days someone could have been having their way with my personal information and credit card number.
Well, at least my credit card company would have noticed any odd buying patterns and would have contacted me. They'd have locked out the card, and begun the process to set me up with all new information.
Because they have a moral and legal obligation to do so.
Two things in which you have totally failed me.
Banks take our personal information seriously. You said you do, but your inaction over the past six days proves otherwise.
Were I able to get onto the PSN right now, I'd be demanding my money back for everything I purchased through the network. And then I would be deleting all my information, and then deleting my account. Perhaps between now and whenever you manage to put your network back online, I'll cool down a little.
Certainly, I will not be purchasing anything from you ever again. I was looking forward to the upcoming DLC for Street Fighter IV. And perhaps a few games on Steam, since that's recently become available on the PS3. But no, that will not be happening now.
And I'll be encouraging everyone I can not to purchase anything Sony related.
Signed,
An ex-customer.
I've been a Sony customer, and fan, for the longest of times. I have an 80s walkman, a 90s cd walkman, I bought the original Playstation, as well as the Playstation 2 and Playstation 3.
I've been a believer and enthusiast when it comes to digital content and being able to play immediately without having to leave the comfort of the couch. Less game boxes to take up space on the shelves, less plastic wrap to throw out. DLC has been pretty decent so far as well.
Steam, Impulse, the Playstation Network... all of these are great tools for gamers.
I also know that there is a lot of work, and some difficulty, in creating, maintaining and protecting such services. Notable outages of authentication servers, login servers and game servers have proven that there are downsides to an always on, digital game service.
I'm not mad that the Playstation Network has been down since the 20th of April.
I understand there are occasional outages, someone makes a mistake, a hacker finds a loophole or maybe servers just catch fire. It happens.
I'm not mad that there's a chance that not just my personal information has been stolen, but that potentially my credit card information as well.
Again, this can happen. I've had my debit card "swiped" before, and my account emptied.
The difference is, Sony, between that and what has happened to your network, is worlds apart. My bank informed me immediately. My money was replaced. My debit card was replaced. My account number was changed. My PIN was changed. All done in a short period of time, with as little inconvenience as possible.
I'm absolutely furious, Sony, that you took SIX days to disseminate this information. And you didn't even have the decency to contact us, we have to learn through gaming news media.
Yeah, Kotaku told me what you should have.
That's SIX days someone could have been having their way with my personal information and credit card number.
Well, at least my credit card company would have noticed any odd buying patterns and would have contacted me. They'd have locked out the card, and begun the process to set me up with all new information.
Because they have a moral and legal obligation to do so.
Two things in which you have totally failed me.
Banks take our personal information seriously. You said you do, but your inaction over the past six days proves otherwise.
Were I able to get onto the PSN right now, I'd be demanding my money back for everything I purchased through the network. And then I would be deleting all my information, and then deleting my account. Perhaps between now and whenever you manage to put your network back online, I'll cool down a little.
Certainly, I will not be purchasing anything from you ever again. I was looking forward to the upcoming DLC for Street Fighter IV. And perhaps a few games on Steam, since that's recently become available on the PS3. But no, that will not be happening now.
And I'll be encouraging everyone I can not to purchase anything Sony related.
Signed,
An ex-customer.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Sony's PSN down for five days now...
Sony's Playstation Network has been down for several days now, taken down by Sony themselves. Maybe due to the actions of hackers, the PSN was down earlier in the month, and perhaps Sony is now updating their network to be more tamper proof.
I hope that other game developers and publishers are watching this closely.
You would think that these companies would have extremely sturdy networks able to resist hacking, DDoS, exploits and so forth. It might be difficult to prevent every attack possible, but you would think that Sony, of all companies, could take down the PSN and have it back up in relatively short order. And they are being their usual, quiet selves when it comes to giving out information.
These sorts of attacks, and this lengthy downtime, might turn people away from digital distribution of games, and online gaming in general. I believe that most people don't like not being able to access their games, stats and other information, especially for almost a week with scarce information on what is going on.
This sort of think might just cause a rethink in the abandonment of LAN gaming. Maybe.
I hope that other game developers and publishers are watching this closely.
You would think that these companies would have extremely sturdy networks able to resist hacking, DDoS, exploits and so forth. It might be difficult to prevent every attack possible, but you would think that Sony, of all companies, could take down the PSN and have it back up in relatively short order. And they are being their usual, quiet selves when it comes to giving out information.
These sorts of attacks, and this lengthy downtime, might turn people away from digital distribution of games, and online gaming in general. I believe that most people don't like not being able to access their games, stats and other information, especially for almost a week with scarce information on what is going on.
This sort of think might just cause a rethink in the abandonment of LAN gaming. Maybe.
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