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Post by chat on Apr 26, 2011 16:20:24 GMT -5
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Post by melkathi on Apr 26, 2011 16:30:32 GMT -5
Oooh, I had missed that
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Post by pax on Apr 26, 2011 16:37:01 GMT -5
.... and now, perhaps, all those PlayStation fanboys will stop laughing at people for paying for a Gold membership to Xbox Live. Because, you know, YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR ... including, it seems, data security.
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Post by chat on Apr 26, 2011 16:42:56 GMT -5
I more or less feel like this...
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Post by Pion on Apr 26, 2011 17:54:26 GMT -5
Wow that's brutal lol. That's going to hurt.
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Post by calsetes on Apr 27, 2011 9:46:21 GMT -5
I think it sucks that the data got out, but I'm not freaking out about how long it took them to get that data to their customers - it took a while, but if they had to hire a third party security company for it, then it must have been severe (unless their security division is a cardboard box with a rabid ferret in it, which is a totally different problem altogether.)
Either way, I've been trying to keep an ear to the ground for when it pops up so I can quickly change all my info as fast as I can. I'm not too terribly worried about the credit card info, mainly because a quick phone call and I'm covered on that front, too. Plus, you can't destroy what's already a smoking pile of rubble, right? Go horrible credit!
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Post by Pion on Apr 28, 2011 9:36:05 GMT -5
Plus, you can't destroy what's already a smoking pile of rubble, right? Go horrible credit! lol My brother was going on about somebody stealing his identity. My response was "So? What are they going to do? Pay your $40k debt? Pay your phone bill on time? Not get the cable and power shut off every other month? Improve your raport with women?" If someone stole his identity they'd be doing him, and probably me, a favor.
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Post by calsetes on Apr 28, 2011 9:49:42 GMT -5
Apparently someone's trying to get a class-action lawsuit started up to get Sony to pay compensation and for credit reports for everyone in the PSN. Sounds good on paper, but the fact that it's a class action lawsuit rubs me the wrong way (as I understand it, they usually give the person whose name is listed in the suit as the filer "publicity," the attourneys / lawyers handling the actual suit make a metric *censored*ton of money, and everyone who's an actual "client" gets about $1 out of the deal, which does nothign but cost the company more money than they would have had they actually just done what was suggested in the suit.)
I'd be cool with even $5 credit on the store, but if they don't do anything, and I don't have to worry about my credit card being stolen (which apparently they're determining that might have been the only thing not touched, but still warning people to be cautious nevertheless,) then I'm happy. I thnk the "security breach" may have actually been an on-site thing, too - I think I saw on one of the PSN Blog updates that they were moving the physical location of the servers. Whether that's SOP for any kind of intrusion of any sort, or just if it was a physical intrusion into their servers, though...
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Post by pax on Apr 29, 2011 4:33:15 GMT -5
Well, some good news for hte PS3ers among us: Sony reports that CC# information was held in securely-encrypted files, and thus, should be safe for a while yet. If I were among those affected, I would still be getting replacement CC#'s across the board - remember, no encryption is crack-proof; it's always "a matter or time". The stronger the encryption, the longer it takes to break it ... but eventually, a determined effort WILL break ANY encryption algorithm.
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Post by chat on Apr 29, 2011 4:37:29 GMT -5
I just got a mail informing me there was a breach in security.
I just love humour.
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Post by KenpoJuJitsu3 on Apr 29, 2011 7:57:27 GMT -5
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Post by calsetes on Apr 29, 2011 9:13:35 GMT -5
I liked the Penny Arcade comic they had for this incident. Anyway, Shacknews (which I read often because of that awesome Droid app) said apparently some users are reporting that they've had credit incidents recently, with one of the writers for Shacknews stating they had "three $500 transactions for Giant Foods in Germany, which doesn't exist." So... be careful, guys. Watch those things like a hawk.
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Post by calsetes on Apr 29, 2011 11:56:21 GMT -5
For anyone interested, just read an article on Shacknews on my phone that supposedly, it's rumored that hackers are selling a list of 2.2 million users' credit card numbers. FBI's helping Sony with the investigations.
Man, where's Neil Caffrey when you need him!?!?
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Post by pax on Apr 29, 2011 12:36:44 GMT -5
Guess the encryption on those files wasn't so hot after all, eh?
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I wonder if the encryption KEY was stored on those same servers? Sounds about stupid enough ...
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Post by melkathi on Apr 29, 2011 12:43:33 GMT -5
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