AND the Sony hack gets bigger and bigger

[thewayne]

Sony Online Entertainment, the home of MMO games such as the recently launched DC Universe, was also compromised and has been shut down. This is after the PSN network was compromised and Sony assured SOE users that their system was safe.

Sony will offer one month of free play plus one day for every day the network is down.

The estimate is that almost 13,000 credit cards and banking information was compromised out of 25,000 accounts.

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/05/sony-online-entertainment-hack/

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/02/sony-hit-with-second-attack-loses-12-700-credit-card-nu/

The official Sony Online announcement: http://www.soe.com/securityupdate/pressrelease.vm

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/05/03/0439203/Sony-Breach-Gets-Worse-246-Million-Compromised-Accounts-At-SOE


I believe this takes the number of compromised accounts to over 90,000.

[EDIT] Just read a comment on Slashdot. Guy played EverQuest, dropped it in 2001. Just got a letter from Sony saying that his personal information was compromised. Wow.

Comments

[silveradept]

That's a bigger breach than the original. I'm beginning to wonder whether they're going to have to scrap and start again, importing manually the data they had. Whatever they've got now, I'm guessing it's too compromised to be useful.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

There's going to be a lot of new bank cards issued, that's for sure. And guaranteed that the credit card auditors are going to come down on Sony hard!

[silveradept]

Definitely. Am still very glad that I have not purchased anything from them, so there's no reason for my credit data to be on file for them.