NoScream~SPARTA~ Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 Sony took down the PSN last week 19th April 2011 after hackers got into the core system and accessed user data Credit card/ login/ passwords/ personal data/ email http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/sony-psn-hack-what-you-can-and-can-t-do-948549 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13169518 http://edition.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2011/04/27/exp.mxp.playstation.hackers.hln.html http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/video/sony-playstation-hackers-network-games-ps3-13466450 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzADT9Ze65I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MedicSN6 Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 How much you guys wanna bet there will be a bunch of PS3s for sale soon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EL_n00biachi Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 Nah why would you sell your PS3....damage has been done ....what good will selling your ps3 do?......anyway europeans usually dont use credit cards so all they have is log in names and passwords....the americans however....yeah.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MedicSN6 Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 Nah why would you sell your PS3....damage has been done ....what good will selling your ps3 do?......anyway europeans usually dont use credit cards so all they have is log in names and passwords....the americans however....yeah.... To get a 360 so former PS3 multi-players can do so again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EL_n00biachi Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 I dont understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MedicSN6 Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 The people who can no longer play their games through PSN might sell their PS3s if they do not have an XBOX360. They will then take the money they got from selling their PSNs and then buy an XBOX so they can play the same game on XBOX Live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EL_n00biachi Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 (edited) Nah i dont think so,Xbox live had more and longer outages....they didnt jump ship at those times either. Edited April 27, 2011 by EL_n00biachi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirSmokalot Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 (edited) Xbox Live requires a pay for subscriptions to even get to play alot of the same games online. PSN for what it offers for free is a better IMO as I had Xbox Live and a 360 before. Once GT5 hit, It was enough justification then buying a PS3 then another 360 after the previous had a "red-dot" of death. PSN will be back up soon with what I'm for certain will follow is a firmware update. I just hope there's also another patch of content for GT5. Not necessarily to fix stuff, but it seems with every patch to GT5 there's new features! Namely the Remote race, Online special events, Online Used cars, ability to save online game replays, improvements to B-spec, etc etc. I'm almost certain that Live and any other online gaming networks are next if Sony's network was supposedly fairly secure. After all I don't think this will happen again as Sony contracted one of the biggest player in fixing infrastructure attacks and building up to avoid this again, rumors have it this was Prolexic. These guys are the people you call if you're a major enterprise and get hacked badly or having major DDoS problems. From my NTOP logging and checking to why I was having connection issues around the 19th with GT5, I picked up some webcrawling from their servers on PSN's common port traffic. Edited April 27, 2011 by SirSmokalot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoScream~SPARTA~ Posted April 27, 2011 Author Share Posted April 27, 2011 I agree PSN will be back up soon, the result of this is a big hunt of the hacker, alot more security. The latest information on the PlayStation Network service outage http://uk.playstation.com/home/news/articles/detail/item369506/PSN-Qriocity-Service-Update/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steel~Sparta~ Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 they will not find the hacker(s). I am sure it was sponsored in part by Anonymous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster90 Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Anon has not taken any responsibility. Trust me, they wouldn't shut up about it if they had. They'd be sharing the lulz for about a week before returning to gore porn and anime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steel~Sparta~ Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 Anon has not taken any responsibility. Trust me, they wouldn't shut up about it if they had. They'd be sharing the lulz for about a week before returning to gore porn and anime. I am not so sure for 2 reasons... 1. Anon is a distributed collective of very talented hackers from across the globe with out a clear hirarchy, at least to the best of my knowledge. They are extremely decentalized and intentionally so. This makes them hard to track possibly even for themselves as each member operates largly independant of another. Plausable denyablity. 2. Sony is a big VERY big company with vast resources. If they throw enuf money at the issue they can catch the persons reasponsible. Anon has lots of enemies and may not want the attention. Besides, why admit to something that you did especially if there is a good chance that you might get caught. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkeleTele~SPARTA~ Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 (edited) check this out this was on april 4th way before anything happened to PSN Edited April 29, 2011 by SkeleTele~SPARTA~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoScream~SPARTA~ Posted April 29, 2011 Author Share Posted April 29, 2011 Nice find, looks like they might of hung themselves even if they were not involved. On more happier news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13231307 PlayStation Network credit card details were encrypted Sony has revealed that credit card details held on its PlayStation Network were stored in securely encrypted files. The news offers some hope to users worried about their personal data after the online system was hacked. Sony had previously warned that card numbers and expiry dates may have been among the stolen data. However, other information, including dates of birth and home addresses, did not have the same level of protection. The full extent of the security breach was revealed on Monday, following a week-long investigation by Sony. Unusual transactions Sony suggested that users should keep a close eye on their financial statements and alert their card issuer about any unusual transactions. That advice was echoed by Visa Europe, the company behind the Visa payment system. It explained that if card data was found to have been stolen and used to make unauthorised payments, users would not have to pick up the bill. The FBI confirmed to BBC News that it was now involved and had been in contact with Sony in the United States. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athlon64~SPARTA~ Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 Glade i never got in that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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