{"id":3102,"date":"2011-04-28T10:29:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T09:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/?p=3102"},"modified":"2015-09-09T19:37:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T11:37:14","slug":"sony-playstation-network-hack-resulted-in-stolen-user-data-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2011\/04\/sony-playstation-network-hack-resulted-in-stolen-user-data-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony PlayStation Network Hack Resulted In Stolen User Data & Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

So after our report on Monday – Sony Rebuilding PlayStation Network (PSN) \u2013 Down 4 Days So Far<\/a> – news had been spilling out about this whole thing pretty much non-stop. It appears the network is still down and there was some serious data loss including user data for millions of users being stolen.<\/p>\n

All kinds of personal data was leaked including birth dates, names, e-mail address and it was originally though the hackers had also got hold of user credit card details.<\/p>\n

A funny tweet I saw on the matter was “Hello my name is SONY. I like long walks on the beach, DRM, rootkits and losing your cc info.” from @rodolfor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sony is warning its millions of PlayStation Network users to watch out for identity-theft scams after hackers breached its security and plundered the user names, passwords, addresses, birth dates, and other information used to register accounts.<\/p>\n

The stolen information may also include payment-card data, purchase history, billing addresses, and security answers used to change passwords, Sony said on Tuesday. The company plans to keep the hacked system offline for the time being, and to restore services gradually. The advisory also applies to users of Sony’s related Qriocity network.<\/p>\n

Sony’s stunning admission came six days after the PlayStation Network was taken down following what the company described as an \u201cexternal intrusion\u201d.<\/p>\n

Sony had already come under fire for a copyright lawsuit targeting customers who published instructions for unlocking the game console so it could run games and applications not officially sanctioned by the company. The criticism only grew after Sony lawyers sought detailed records belonging to hacker George Hotz<\/a>, including the IP addresses of everyone who visited his jailbreaking website over a span of 26 months<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What worries me is how much of their data was stored in plain text, I guess they assumed their system and network was so secure it would not be breached. But still, the important stuff should have been behind some kind of encryption layer and things like passwords should be hashed.<\/p>\n

There was an official update from them too on the PlayStation blog here:<\/p>\n

Update on PlayStation Network and Qriocity<\/a><\/p>\n

They did warn users to remain vigilant and provided ways on how to be prepared for credit card. There were some rumours going around that PSN users were seeing $10 debits from the credit cards they had linked to their PlayStation accounts.<\/p>\n