Sony finally comes clean on why PSN is down

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/04/sony-admits-utter-psn-failure-your-personal-data-has-been-stolen.arsJust a warning to all of you guys with PS3s, but if you put any credit card info or anything of that nature on it, you should probably consider it compromised and fix it.

I can't remember if I registered my credit card with the PSN. Probably not since it's flashed, but I'll soon find out.Also, major fail on Sony's part. I can't believe this happened. Secure my ass!

I find it absolutely retarded that it took Sony THIS long for them to release almost any information about this. Jesus.

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When did it first start happening? I remember a recent failure in the EA servers. You couldn't login and access your DLCs in many games using the EA servers, and it took them about 3 days to respond.

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Sometime last week I believe. No information has been given about it until yesterday night or so.

I had my debit card saved on there. I'm in the process of getting a new one now.I would have liked to have this information LAST WEEK Sony, thanks.

PSN is down, i'm glad i'm not able to access my PS3 right now....

Sony just emailed me the reason for PSN being shutdown. apparently PSN have been hacked and several customer data have been taken.they shut down PSN to prevent anymore information to be taken and have hire some security firm to investigate this issue and perform an security upgrade to prevent this from happening again.old info.... >.> i wonder why asian PSN is so slow in this matter....

Probably because many of their servers are down.

Yeah secure... right -__-

http://www.siliconera.com/2011/04/30/playstation-network-to-resume-this-week-sony-introduce-welcome-back-program/Looks like it'll be fixed fairly soon at least.

I'm not here to flame anybody or anything like that but...
I just find it hilarious that Playstation fanboys are always like...
" PSN IZ FREEEE "
That's what you get for your free service.

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PSN is free. It's a fine service that i;m able to use easily. One fuck up hardly constitutes anything for me.

xicyacex · #12I'm not here to flame anybody or anything like that but...
I just find it hilarious that Playstation fanboys are always like...
" PSN IZ FREEEE "
That's what you get for your free service.

come back when this is a common problem.also PSN IS FREE, and they only have one problem ever since its lunch.. and yes ITS FREE.

xicyacex · #12I'm not here to flame anybody or anything like that but...
I just find it hilarious that Playstation fanboys are always like...
" PSN IZ FREEEE "
That's what you get for your free service.

It could equally easily have happened to xbox live. If someone is determined enough to break into a network then there is no security that will stop them. Network and computer security is all about making it so difficult that people give up or don't bother, if they are determined enough they will break through anything the sysadmin does to stop them. Security is a journey, not a destination.

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But it wouldn't be equally as easy due to xbox having better security

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You don't know that they have.

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Is there any way of knowing what they have?
And could have Sony's security have been better or something along those lines?

No there is no way of knowing what either has, but we can assume the minimum they have because there is legislation requiring them to have a certain minimum level of security.

I hear its been hacked again