So for a week now thegameveda has joked about the Sony PSN hack , today whilst checking JUNK MAIL , thegameveda found the official warning of the SOE hack . My beloved PC gaming nirvana has been threatened. This is the 4th online mess I have personally faced in the last year , two from Apple and now two from Sony, all involving credit card detail theft or misuse and rooted in weak security for online stores and payment methods .
Thegameveda correctly predicted that the hackers would not be happy with 77 million PSN accounts , and now the score is up to over 100 million , including the latest SOE , PC accounts , data that Sony stored partially unencrypted since 2007 !
The key thing here is this data goes back to 2007 , you may have to check all your old email addresses for the warning , it would be safest to just get onto SOE and delete your account , they always told us video games were bad for our health ! so now would be a great time to ditch Everquest , avoid that impeding divorce , and get a real life.
Going Dark :
Dig out that VCS , and play that wonderful Tank game , whilst the rebirth of 70 s style cartridges may be far fetched , there is now a major gap in the games market , a need that must be filled , and that is safe , personal detail entry/exchange free gaming , its not that hard to do really , we have been gaming without handing details over to media giants for over 30 years .
Come on you never had to hand over your bank details to play the best games of your youth now did you ? So why should the big boys ( now with their pants firmly pulled down and wedgied by recent hacks) expect you to do so with PSN , XBox live, SOE or any other online service.
This is a global Internet attack , that governments should be handling , that it started through a medium - online gaming - that many , including governments consider frivolous at best is irrelevant . Someone at a very senior level should be fixing this now , and they should not be relying on Sony.
Nations and global companies will fall:
The Sony PSN , and now SOE hack is the first global Internet disaster , clearly the biggest hack of all time , and is still going on .
In a week we have gone from an service outage , no explanation from Sony , to 77 million PSN accounts hacked and now over 100 million including PC accounts .
This is the greatest act of gross negligence by a company using the Internet for business in the short history of e-commerce and online gaming.
So we are up to 100 million , I truly believe there are hackers out there now pushing for 1 billion and if not that at the very least the first Total Global Internet Commerce Shutdown event in the history of the Internet.
Someone somewhere should be taking this very seriously, and they are which is why the media is treating it with frivolity to cover up the actual harm this is causing , as a 60 second news bite , with the obligatory badly facial haired geek gamer complaining about not being able to play with his "mates"
With 100 million and climbing affected should the Playstation Hack now be classified as a religion , a country , a movement ? or an army , perhaps the first Internet Pandemic ?
The knock on effects will propel this hack to over a billion people affected , and surely it cannot all be because of the lack of PSN and SOE security?
Do ya feel lucky CyberPunk?
They are asking us to change credit cards , ok , but they are also asking us to give them those new credit card details , when and if they fix this . Do you trust Sony ? Or do you trust the hackers to bypass the additional security?
If you missed the riff check out the original The Day The Earth Stood Still
And here is the text of the LATEST Sony Online Entertainment warning email , which considering my old email account is one of 100 million in possession of hackers , may or may not be real ! Remember to check your junk mail , and any email accounts that you were using circa 2007 !
| May 2, 2011 | ||||||
| Dear Valued Sony Online Entertainment Customer: | ||||||
| Our ongoing investigation of illegal intrusions into Sony Online Entertainment systems has discovered that hackers may have obtained personal customer information from SOE systems. We are today advising you that the personal information you provided us in connection with your SOE account may have been stolen in a cyber-attack. Stolen information includes, to the extent you provided it to us, the following: name, address (city, state, zip, country), email address, gender, birthdate, phone number, login name and hashed password. Customers outside the United States should be advised that we further discovered evidence that information from an outdated database from 2007 containing approximately 12,700 non-US customer credit or debit card numbers and expiration dates (but not credit card security codes) – we will be notifying each of those customers promptly. | ||||||
| There is no evidence that our main credit card database was compromised. It is in a completely separate and secured environment. | ||||||
| We had previously believed that SOE customer data had not been obtained in the cyber-attacks on the company, but on May 1st we concluded that SOE account information may have been stolen and we are notifying you as soon as possible. | ||||||
| We apologize for the inconvenience caused by the attack and as a result, we have: | ||||||
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| We greatly appreciate your patience, understanding and goodwill as we do whatever it takes to resolve these issues as quickly and efficiently as practicable. | ||||||
| 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 number or other personally identifiable information. If you are asked for this information, you can be confident Sony is not the entity asking. When SOE’s services are fully restored, we strongly recommend that you log on and change your password. Additionally, if you use your Station or SOE game account 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 reports. | ||||||
| We are committed to helping our customers protect their personal data and we will provide a complimentary offering to assist users in enrolling in identity theft protection services and/or similar programs. The implementation will be at a local level and further details will be made available shortly in regions in which such programs are commonly utilized. | ||||||
| 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 contact us at + 44 870-600-0267 (Monday to Friday 15:00 to 22:00 GMT excluding holidays) should you have any additional questions. | ||||||
| Sincerely, Sony Online Entertainment LLC | ||||||
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