93,000 Sony accounts accessed by hackers
Sony has revealed that 93,000 accounts were recently accessed by hackers.
The 93,000 accounts span both Sony's PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment services, as well as Sony Online Entertainment. The total amounts to one tenth of one percent of total accounts, says Sony.
'Please note, if you have a credit card associated with your account, your credit card number is not at risk,' Philip Reitinger, VP and Chief Information Security Officer of the Sony Group, wrote on the PlayStation Blog.
Sony suffered a spate of other hacking attacks earlier this year when hackers forced Sony to take PSN offline to repair security flaws.
'We want to take this opportunity to remind our consumers about the increasingly common threat of fraudulent activity online, as well as the importance of having a strong password and having a username/password combination that is not associated with other online services or sites,' Reitinger said.
'We encourage you to choose unique, hard-to-guess passwords and always look for unusual activity in your account.'
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lessions haven't been learned yet i see
I almost feel bad for them but we don't know all the details.
http://vividgamer.com/2011/10/12/sony-detects-massive-hacking-attempt-60000-psn-accounts-affected/
So details for accounts were obtained via other means and not a direct hack on the PSN network.
Quote from the site Baronvongogo linked.
"Late last night Sony's Chief Information Security Officer, Philip Reitinger, released a statement on the PlayStation Blog informing users that Sony detected a massive hacking attempt. According to Sony, the hackers obtained a large amount of user data from other companies or websites. The hackers were attempting to sign-in to numerous accounts using ID and password pairs, and while the overwhelming majority of the pairs resulted in failed matching attempts there were still approximately 93 thousand accounts (globally) in which the hackers succeeded."
I was just pointing out that PSN was not hacked though as was the case last time. User details where taken from other sources and they did detect the hacking attempt and with a lot of failed login attempts probably just had email addresses and using random password generator.
Everyone knows by now it's insecure to use such a password. Now they've all upgraded to password 01.
Damn it! Gotta change all my passwords now, 02 sounds good.
To be fair, Sony should make people use letters and numbers like many places are doing now.
Suppose it serves me right for being too lazy to change my password after the last time PSN got hacked?
Gamertag that has not been used for over 2 year's, has tried to buy Xbox Live Point's but the card on the account was cancelled ages ago and when I spoke to Microsoft they laughed and said it was my fault that someone got my account detail's of there server.
Watchdog for Microsoft and Sony again soon I think rofl!!
If that's the case, it isn't Sony's fault, and I think they're being very generous by not saying so. If you choose to associate a credit card with the password "lollipop", you are an idiot.
And yes, by saying that, I'm calling a lot of people idiots, sadly.
Eh?
WTH?
Somehow I think you posted that in the wrong place lol.
it was a joke.
Do explain. Pleaseeeeeeee?