Sony better do better than giving us free 30 day subscription to PSN Plus. Every user deserves free Move. Heck why not give us free PS3 game.
Sony better do better than giving us free 30 day subscription to PSN Plus. Every user deserves free Move. Heck why not give us free PS3 game.
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At first, I figured that normal users shouldn't get any more than an apology and paid service users should get compensation for the days lost. Now, after potential credit card fraud, I'm not sure....
I don't want a subscription, a free game, a move. Give me some goddamn money for making me have to change all my passwords, email all of my friends an apology for the spam emails sent and have to constantly be keeping an eye on my credit report. This has class action lawsuit written all over it.
Life is like a hurricane...
You know what I'd like more than a free game or psn plus? If Sony gave us each free credit fraud monitoring for a year. Peace of mind is worth more than some game.
I'm not sure if people aren't reading the official statements, or they're just ignoring what was said.
"The entire credit card table was encrypted and we have no evidence that credit card data was taken. The personal data table, which is a separate data set, was not encrypted, but was, of course, behind a very sophisticated security system that was breached in a malicious attack."
While there's no reason not to be safe with your data if it helps you sleep better at night ... Sony has publicly declared that there was no compromise of credit card data.
And as far as credit fraud via the information that you provided to PSN to create an account ... A.) we live in an age where people should know better than to use the same password for all digital secure logins and B.) most if not all of our Names, Addresses and Phone Numbers are points of information that fraudsters can easily obtain without having to crack Sony's network.
In fact, that data has likely been sold and/or dispersed by your bank and/or credit card company already. Just type your name and state into Google and you'll probably find that data indexed in a "people finder" site.
"And the book says: 'We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us.'"
Anyone else read 2600? They had an article a few years ago (last year maybe) on best practices on keeping your online passwords safe. I'll see if I can track it down.
Now that would be a class move, and actually a step above, but were talking Sony here. More like, FREE PSN!... Which is already free...
Glad to see they've called on third parties for investigation and consult. They're going to need credible experts external to the company to help them in court.
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Already underway. You just knew it was going to happen although I don't think it's going to get very far in court. Maybe if Sony offers an actual good downloadable game they'll drop the lawsuit altogether. I mean, it's not like they are going to get any monetary compensation if they miraculously won.
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Update from Sony: 10 million credit cards may have been exposed. They will be providing credit card protection services to those people. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/tech...rk-attack.html
So, yikes. I'm glad I cancelled my card already and had them send me a new one. This is p. bad.
I'm glad someone else is upset that their credit card information might have been compromised. I don't view this as an awesome opportunity to get some shitty free game like a bunch of you are.
Life is like a hurricane...
Sony to give us free crap in exchange for pretending this didn't happen. Or something:
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/...ble-this-week/
Yeah, this is a pretty lame deal that Sony is pushing. "Hey, sorry for having an insecure system and allowing your user information to be stolen. But, as a way of saying we are sorry, try out our pay-based PSN+ for a month. We're sure you'll love it!" Riiiiiiiiight. They should have at least given everyone a free PSN title, that doesn't expire like PSN+, to every user.
Thanks for nothing Sony.
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"Yet to be determined free content will be provided, differing per region"
In addition to the free month of PSN+ that everybody will be getting it's safe to assume that the "free content" will be in the form of a game. There's not much other content on the PSN that "differs per region".
"And the book says: 'We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us.'"
If you got compromised, it's worse than nothing. Nothing compared to that would be sweet.
I just remembered that I have a PSN account I set-up through my PSP. I had to have Stardust Portable, what can I say? Pretty sure the card info I upped is expired, thankfully. Since I haven't touched my PSP for anything other than Stardust in over a year... I sort of forgot about it.
Anything us in a similar PSP-only situation should know?
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A PSN account is a PSN account.
A PSP PSN account is the same as a PS3 PSN account, it's all married data.
Same data gathered during sign-up, same login credentials, same PSN ID.
So ... yeah.
Best start building that bomb shelter.
If everything being discussed on the internet is to be believed, based on the PSN compromise the world should wind up looking like Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" in about a week or so.
"And the book says: 'We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us.'"
And now another 12,700 credit card numbers and 10,700 debit cards from SOE's database - they're the MMO division. They're outdated (from a 2007 database), but any disclosure of debit/credit card info is bad. http://www.shacknews.com/article/683...nt-loses-12700
Making you change all of your passwords? Serves you right for having the same fucking password for everything you've ever had, especially when you sign in using your e-mail address. Who's to say your password wasn't taken from something else? I'm no better with my passwords, but damn it all if I'll blame someone else for my own ignorance. And if you have different passwords for all of your other stuff, then you just wasted your time. Also, you should ALWAYS be keeping an eye on your credit statements, so serves them right for "making" you do something you should have been doing from the start.
Anyway, I think Sony is owning up to it all pretty well, far better than others had anticipated. I expected free/extended PSN+ for all users at minimum, but having other goodies still to come is pretty cool for them to do. It's pathetic that all of these people are still bitching after this, then these same would would have bitched no matter what Sony did and them I say grow a pair and get realistic.