I pity da foo that actually payed for his PS3.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/ga...-1226165025928
PS3 users get teabagged - AGAIN
I pity da foo that actually payed for his PS3.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/ga...-1226165025928
Don't pity all of us; I couldn't possible care less about PSN (I've never used it, other then downloading those free comp games after the last PSN crash). As long as my system pays PS3 and PS2 games, I'm fine.Originally Posted by Ludwig
As online console gaming goes, it seems like you get what you paid for.
This doesn't seem like that big a deal unless you're using the same password you use on PSN with other sites.
It's some other site's leaked info that's being used in an effort to access PSN accounts. I guarantee this type of stuff happens all over the place all the time.
Sony is being forthcoming about it since they want to avoid the debacle earlier this year when they waited until well after the fact.
RIP bargora, you will be greatly missed.That is how we do things on Giedion Prime.
A set of PSN accounts were attempted to be accessed via data obtained from a database completely outside of any Sony owned property.
A large email/password database was hacked and that data was attempted to be matched against PSN login data.
Sony immediately recognized the attempts, blocked the attempted intrusion and set those PSN accounts to require a password update when the verified owner logs in again.
According to Sony's new Chief Information Officer, Philip Reitinger, "less than one tenth of one percent (0.1%) of our PSN, SEN and SOE audience may have been affected". In raw number terms that means 93,000 accounts names and passwords were "matched" by someone other than the account holder, and as a result Sony has "temporarily locked these accounts".
He goes on to state that any losses from any purchases made via this unauthorized activity will be credited/reimbursed.
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/...urity-officer/
This shit happens everywhere, all the time. It's the internet. Hackers are always hacking and nothing will ever stop that. This wasn't even Sony's defenses being compromised, it was some other site somewhere that got brute forced and some bot was match-testing the data on the PSN.
This time around, Sony assessed the situation, alerted 100% of the PSN user-base affected and had complete transparency with the public in a timely fashion.
So, yeah, the lesson hammered home again: don't use the same email/password combination for all your stuff.
"And the book says: 'We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us.'"
This is why I use a password manager now.
Sony doesn't seem to do much about it though. Even if you would say now they aren't guilty at all and they aren't involved, it's still their ass on the line obviously. Their reputation suffers. What most people get is: "Sony customers pissed, everything fubar." And considering that they just don't do enough.
Lol. >.>
If it came from another source, I'm sure it's gaming-related. Otherwise, the likelihood of the account/logins being the same as the source is ultra slim. Wonder who got jacked.
Yeah .... right, whatever you say.
"And the book says: 'We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us.'"
The trolls are out early = /
Your argument is basically analogous with saying "Man, I wish I didn't pay for my computer because my password was stolen from Facebook and my account was suspended."
I pity people who paid for their computer and their Facebook account was suspended.
From what I heard it was old discontinued accounts that were hacked.. So a success for the hackers? Eh... not so much.
If they were hacked, PSN sure didn't show it. I was online for several hours last night and it never logged me out.
It's not Sony's fault they are being targeted for trying to keep their system hacked by DOS kiddies... People supporting Geohotz, who was mad because Sony removed OtherOS.. I guarantee 99.9% of the people complaining about the removal of that never even used it!
You can't blame Sony for trying to keep the PS3 from turning into a hackbox 360 or Wii.
Besides if they do the investors get pissed off and they are far worse than Anonymous.
They may take your system offline for a while, but investors can make or break your company financially.
Last edited by spoonman; 10-12-2011 at 10:44 PM. Reason: speeling eerorz
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There are times I am glad there is an ignore feature. This is one of those times.
RIP bargora, you will be greatly missed.That is how we do things on Giedion Prime.
Nobody got hurt by this attack and Sony took swift measures to make sure nobody's information was compromised in the tiny number of accounts this affected.
But I'm glad some of you guys got your anti-Sony ammo for the week. Hopefully that makes your lives fuller.
LULZ go back to Gamefaqs.
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sony took the apropriate action and protected anyone who could be possibly affected by the situation, all is good, move along theres nothing to see here.
flamebait much?
Before playing Halo 2 online back in the day(2005) I had no idea what teabagging was. Kind of makes you regret that we couldn't record our gameplay videos until Halo 3 came out.
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I take it you never owned a VCR?
I did but I prefer the streamlined process of recording directly from the console that many games let us use today. On a related note, I actually did use my vcr to record certain game endings during the PS1 days.
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