PSN hacked!

While the store saves credit card numbers, it does not display the full number to the user, so thieves would be unable to swipe credit card information for use elsewhere.

Sumez>
Som sagt, måske har jeg bare misforstået det, men som jeg forstår det er begrebet "anonymous" taget fra 4chan, hvor alle poster anonymt, og at "anonymous" står bag noget dækker blot over en aktion hvor alle kan være med og der derved ikke er navne eller identititet på nogen af de involverede, lidt som en flashmob.

Sumez>
Mht. et DoS angreb, kunne det f.eks. være et script nogen har lagt offentligt på nettet, som diverse ballademagere så bruger til at bidrage til angrebet.

Beano>
P.S: Hvorfor kan man stadig ikke svare Sumez uden at PR siden fuckes op og man selv skal quote manuelt? :P

Herold>
Der går rygter om at det faktisk ikke et hackerangreb. PSN er lukket ned pga. at folk fandt ud af at med Custom Firm Ware, så kunne de gå på Sonys lukkede Dev-PSN, og indtaste falske kreditkortinformationer i PSN Store, da det ikke bliver tjekket på det lukkede netværk - og voila, alle PSN-spil. Dette har så ført til at Sony har måtte lukke PSN for at sikre at dette ikke kan ske igen.

Det er stadig spekulation, men spekulation baseret på en masse fakta.

Herold>
Og igen, så er det ikke et angreb, men snarere en masse mennesker, der har luret at det var nemt at få gratis spil. Et angreb har målet at ødelægge noget, her har folk bare udnyttet at det var muligt. Sony kan kalde det et angreb alt det de vil, men der er ingen der har gjort noget i denne sammenhæng for at ødelægge deres systemer, tage netværket ned eller andet.

Herold>
Havde der været et decideret angreb med et mål, havde vi næsten med sikkerhed fået det at vide.

Herold>
Dermed ikke sagt, at nogen ikke har udnyttet hullet til andet end at downloade spil - og så er vi ovre i noget der lyder som et angreb, men hvorfor så ikke bare lukke shop-delen ned, hvis det bare er det, som du selv skrev?

Forskellen er jo også at PSN var nede sidst pga. angrebet i sig selv, men at Sony er dem der har trukket stikket denne gang.

Thank you for your patience while we work to resolve the current outage of PlayStation Network & Qriocity services. We don’t have an exact date to share at this moment as to when we will have the services turned on, but are working day and night to ensure it is as quickly as possible. We are currently working to send the following message via email to all of our registered account holders regarding a compromise of personal information as a result of this malicious attack on our servers, so please look for this information via email as well. Please note that we are as upset as you are regarding this attack and are going to proceed aggressively to track down those that are responsible.

Valued PlayStation Network/Qriocity Customer,

We have discovered that between April 17 and April 19, 2011, certain PlayStation Network and Qriocity service user account information was compromised in connection with an illegal and unauthorized intrusion into our network. In response to this intrusion, we have:

1) Temporarily turned off PlayStation Network and Qriocity services;

2) Engaged an outside, recognized security firm to conduct a full and complete investigation into what happened; and

3) Quickly taken steps to enhance security and strengthen our network infrastructure by re-building our system to provide you with greater protection of your personal information.

We greatly appreciate your patience, understanding and goodwill as we do whatever it takes to resolve these issues as quickly and efficiently as practicable.

Although we are still investigating the details of this incident, we believe that an unauthorized person has obtained the following information that you provided: name, address (city, state/province, zip or postal code), country, email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity passwords and login, and handle/PSN online ID. It is also possible that your profile data, including purchase history and billing address (city, state, zip), and your PlayStation Network/Qriocity password security answers may have been obtained. If you have authorized a sub-account for your dependent, the same data with respect to your dependent may have been obtained. While there is no evidence that credit card data was taken at this time, we cannot rule out the possibility. If you have provided your credit card data through PlayStation Network or Qriocity, to be on the safe side we are advising you that your credit card number (excluding security code) and expiration date may also have been obtained.

For your security, we encourage you to be especially aware of email, telephone, and postal mail scams that ask for personal or sensitive information. Sony will not contact you in any way, including by email, asking for your credit card number, social security, tax identification or similar number or other personally identifiable information. If you are asked for this information, you can be confident Sony is not the entity asking. When the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services are fully restored, we strongly recommend that you log on and change your password. Additionally, if you use your PlayStation Network or Qriocity user name or password for other unrelated services or accounts, we strongly recommend that you change them, as well.

To protect against possible identity theft or other financial loss, we encourage you to remain vigilant to review your account statements and to monitor your credit or similar types of reports.

We thank you for your patience as we complete our investigation of this incident, and we regret any inconvenience. Our teams are working around the clock on this, and services will be restored as soon as possible. Sony takes information protection very seriously and will continue to work to ensure that additional measures are taken to protect personally identifiable information. Providing quality and secure entertainment services to our customers is our utmost priority. Please check www.eu.playstation.com/psnoutage should you have any additional questions.