THE SONY HACKAPALOOZA CONTINUES AS MILLIONS SIGN UP TO PSN AGAIN MILLIONS HAVE THEIR DATA STOLEN FROM SONYPICTURES.COM

Thegameveda has been covering the 2011 Sony Hackapoolaza for a while now , this blog entry was supposed to be about PSN and the store coming back on line , but it is time for yet another Star Wars reference ...for the course of Sony Playstation Network Apocalyps3 2011  seems to be loosely (!) following the chapters of the seminal George Lucas Saga ( episodes good and bad ) so 1 day after gamers saw the Sony Empire Strike back we have a Return of the Hack or perhaps Revenge of the Hack (depending on whether you see them as Jedi or Sith )  as thegameveda forewarned in a treatise entitled Begun the Sony PSN resurrection has...


lets see the damage stats over 1 million SonyPictures.com voices have been suddenly silenced with their account details , you know the score name , address , password say dob all taken 


A group called lulzsecurity or LulzSec if you want to be acute,  has done this apparently to show how lax Sony security STILL is , even after the PSN debacle , they even have an official press release here  ,and press actually rang up a little old lady to warn her ..they had all her details . see now that is respectful hacking , the little old lady has now changed her password , but since Sony is so lax with its users security it is only a matter of time before another nice hacking group rings her on her home number to ask her to change her password again..BECAUSE IT IS STORED IN PLAIN TEXT ! This is not a joke anymore .. 


Heads have to roll at Sony , 100 million odd fans including thegameveda have just dared to boot up PSN and the Store again ,if we had doubts about the way Sony was handling our data before , now the whole thing is verging on the ridiculous . 


As publisher foul ups go the current Sony Hackapalooza is a doozy ....


This needs a global holding to account of Sony Execs , and by every government whose country in which they do business , why is Sony being allowed to get away with something on this scale again and again , write your congressmen , in fact why not ask LulzSec for his/her phone number , tell them that you got the info because of the lax security that Sony is still operating 


Security is not a service we should be paying for every Sony account we use , or hotmail or Google or Facebook for that matter , these companies make billions out of us , you would think they could spend a few million , or even $1 on providing security for all personal details. 


It is time that governments demanded this and made it law . Write to yours and demand it . Till then it really is time to applaud the hackers like LulzSec for highlighting these dangers , don't believe me ? Just ask that little old lady who has by now made sure she demands Sony remove all her personal details , and that really is the way to get these global leviathans up to speed , by refusing to let them hold any of your details . 


And in this case the hackers exposing Sony`s weak security fall into the Jedi rather than Sith category ...as Lucas refs go ...




as always apologies and thanks to Mr George Lucas , if you want to motivate him into making the holographic versions of the classics and episode 7,8,9 be sure to fund the effort by procuring  Star Wars on Bluray!  After you finish deleting all your Sonypictures.com data of course! 


And I thought this week would be about dull E3 coverage .. more on that later








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