Sony’s admission that 77 million PSN accounts are in the hands of hackers has been followed by scores of reports alleging credit card fraud as a result of the leak, which Sony dismisses with its assertion that there is “no evidence” of the cards being leaked, although they concede they “cannot rule out the possibility.”
Innumerable reports of credit card fraud are being reported as the result of the Sony breach:
“My American Express card was compromised over the weekend. This card sits in a drawer in my house for emergencies, but I did use it once on my PSP for an account.
Luckily American Express is very good at notifying me immediately after the first fraudulent purchase.”
“About two or three days ago, my bank notified me that I had gotten my own [credit card information] stolen, the one I use for my PSN account, and with it a ticket was purchased through a German airline for nearly $600.
They are still looking into the fraud charge meaning that right now I have a negative $500 in my account, with no good chance that I’ll be getting that back any time soon.”
“I also had an attempted fraudulent charge on my American Express card, about $8,000 going to some Japanese store. This all happened about when PSN started having trouble, so I’m betting this had something to do with it.
My advice: if you have your credit card info on PSN, watch your accounts like a hawk. I’m buying pre-paid cards from now on; you know, if I decide to ever spend money on PSN again.”
“I logged into my bank account just to check everything was OK and I found out there was some just over $2,000 in charges which I didn’t personally accrue.
There was a number of early transactions on the 23rd of amounts under $1, which they say is the usual kind of test run that fraudsters do and then there’s been a number of transactions of larger amounts, including domestic flights within Australia, bookings at Best Westerns [hotels] and what not.”
It must of course be stressed that this could all be sheer coincidence, or the result of blame for unrelated fraud unfairly being placed on Sony.
In fact, Sony does seem to claim all this is coincidence, though they do at least advise anyone silly enough to have shared their card details with them to treat them as stolen:
Q: Was my personal data encrypted?
A: All of the data was protected, and access was restricted both physically and through the perimeter and security of the network. The entire credit card table was encrypted and we have no evidence that credit card data was taken.The personal data table, which is a separate data set, was not encrypted, but was, of course, behind a very sophisticated security system that was breached in a malicious attack.
Q: Was my credit card data taken?
A: While all credit card information stored in our systems is encrypted and there is no evidence at this time that credit card data was taken, we cannot rule out the possibility.If you have provided your credit card data through PlayStation Network or Qriocity, out of an abundance of caution we are advising you that your credit card number (excluding security code) and expiration date may have been obtained.
There is already talk of billions of dollars of litigation, fines and compensation, to say nothing of the ruination of the PSN’s future business prospects, so it seems likely Sony will be reeling for some time to come.
Regarding when the PSN will be back up, Sony promises it will only be brought back when it is confident the network is “secure” (if this means anything coming from Sony), and provides the rather interestingly worded assurance that “we expect to have some services up and running within a week from yesterday.”
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I hope Aya Hirano is okay.
I hope Aya Hirano has a PSN account and she gets charged way beyond what she can pay for. Lol
Hope she go broke and maybe because of that she will enter the porn industry.
I like this idea but it would make a crap story.
"Weeks later after Aya Hirano's hit porn movie featuring 60 niggers:"
Commenter: The PSN was hacked just to get Aya in Porn? Ah well fap fap fap...
Sony Spokesman: Yes. And it is unforgivable so we will be giving each PSN user a free copy of Aya's hit movie.
She isn't worth a porn.
PS3 fails so much that's why xbox 360 rules.
fanboy alert
Sound the alarm.
But hes kinda right, i'm glad that i only put a £10 PSN card on my account once.
No, he's not even kind of right. That's just fanboy banter there.
*blip* *blip* *blip* *blip*
:P
This is coming from Narutard-fag..
General rule: if it's connected to the internet, it's not safe.
If you connect your mind in the World like .Hack:Quantum then maybe.....
you said it bro
lmao narutard
yeah because we can trust MS far more than Sony... seriously they are 2 peas in the same pot...
u seriously think u can have naruto as ur display pic on san-con and not get thumbs down?
wow, so it begins!
You mean The beginning of the End....
I don't think so Sony got the money so they will tell them...BRING IT ON!
1. Buy a 3thousand dollar 50 inch 3-d t.v.
2. Report it as a fraudulent expense and attribute it to this incident.
3. ??????
4. Profit.
That's a good one. :> buy some beer and a babe too.
agreed, odds are 80% of these are the owners attempting to score some free items.
No, it is not likely in the slightest. I get ANGRY as fuck when someone starts spouting that bullcrap. They have to be either paid Sony posters or do not realize that most people would NOT do something like this AND the credit card companies can COME TO YOUR HOUSE TO INSPECT and make sure that thing bought isn't in your home!
1. Buy a 3thousand dollar 50 inch 3-d t.v.
2. Store it at a friend's place for the weekend.
3. Report it as a fraudulent expense and attribute it to this incident.
4. Say hello and bye bye to the nice inspector men.
5. ??????
6. Profit.
It's not called bullcrap, it's called truth.
1. Buy a 3 thousand 50" 3d tv
2. Store it at a friends house
3. Blame this incident
4. Say hello and the bye to police officer
5. Normal well trained detective and Ada supenia store for video of said time and day of purchase
6. Police see your face on video with tv.
7. ????????????
8. Jail time
1. Buy a 3 thousand 50" 3d tv via internet
2. Change shipping address to unoccupied house, unrented house or apartment complex in different neighborhood
3. Sign for package in a retarded manner opposite of normal manner paying attention to round more or make sharper end (practice makes perfect) and pick up TV at the door
4. Stash TV in friend's house
5. Report credit card fraud
6. Say hello and then bye to police officer
7. Grab 3 thousand 50" 3d tv and gift it to friend or hot chic on major event (birthday/xmas)
8. Gain major favor in return/emotional debt that'll translate into huge gift and/or sex
9. ??????
10. PROFIT!
1. Get your friend to buy a 3 thousand 50" 3d tv
2. Store it at a friends house
3. Blame this incident
4. Say hello and the bye to the nice inspector men
7. ????????????
8. Jail time...Not
So...
With possibly 70 millions people going to report fraud, I don't think they'll have the manpower to check if everyone is telling the truth...
Jail time is right; there are serious penalties for that kind of crap and people get caught doing it all the time, psn outage or not.
1. Stop being friends with said friend
2. Await his report to the FBI
3. Enjoy your prison time for insurance fraud
Last comment before mine is closer to the damned truth! If you order it online? Wow.... every step of the things journey is monitored!
You ain't gonna get away with ordering something online and saying it's a fraudulent purchase with UPS order tracking.
The way I see it, all those people deserve to have their money stolen. How can you not see the simple logic in using dedicated/pre-paid credit card for online purchases?
I keep one and keep it empty most of the time. I put money on it right before the purchase. So good luck stealing my money, fucking thiefs. I double dare you.
Simply? Because most people DON'T HAVE THE MONEY to put 2K on a pre-paid credit card for online purchases.
Secondly, because those pre-paid cards have MUCH LESS PROTECTIONS to them than regular credit cards.
Sony is really BUSTED.
No wonder why play-asia.com is selling PS2 games I think its back to basic for sony...
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-14-71-fp-49-en.html
That only means the PS brand lives.
right really where is a GOOD link to this news besides here
LOL the Japanese!! You gotta hand it to them, even if they were surrended by woods they'd tell you "There are no trees".
Q: Was my credit card data taken?
A: While all credit card information stored in our systems is encrypted and there is no evidence at this time that credit card data was taken, we cannot rule out the possibility. If you have provided your credit card data through PlayStation Network or Qriocity, out of an abundance of caution we are advising you that your credit card number (excluding security code) and expiration date may have been obtained. Keep in mind, however that your credit card security code (sometimes called a CVC or CSC number) has not been obtained because we never requested it from anyone who has joined the PlayStation Network or Qriocity, and is therefore not stored anywhere in our system.
I guess Artefact forgot the last part.
"Regarding when the PSN will be back up, Sony promises it will only be brought back when it is confident the network is “secure” (if this means anything coming from Sony)"
Sounds like a Conspiracy Theory to me...
for all its worth, PSN no longer accept pre-paid or virtual cards. They used to accept them but stopped last year. Which forced people like me to start buying overpriced PSN cards from eBay and such.
Are there no gaming stores where you live?
A $20 PSN card costs $20, so I don't see how it's overpriced.
At any rate, I'm glad they did block virtual cards before my first PSN purchase. This way, I know my bank info is 100% safe.
oh there are many gaming stores here, but I am in a region that is _NOT_ officially covered by PSN. So I have to open an account using a fake international address. There are many that do that in many countries.
yes, I still can't figure out why do companies regional lock their digital stores
Probably tax related or that they haven't secured license to open a store in the region.
Or maybe they don't care about that region (Chile doesn't have PSN Store yet)
I actually tried many times to use my credit card to buy things on the PSN network in 2008 (to buy downloadable stuff) and it wouldn't accept it. I tried many times in vain to input the info correct - always rejected my e-mail addresses.
I was forced to buy those Pre-Paid Sony PSN cards and never tried a Credit Card again. Doesn't Xbox live sell these cards to buy an OnLine subscription.
Yeah Xbox has cards for online subscriptions and cards for points.
boycotting psn from now on,
fuck you sony fags
seriously though how the fuck is it sonys fault if they did what they thought necessary to protect the information and some hacker(rich now) did everything in his power to circumvent that its like suing a builder for builing a house that complies with all the necessary regulations then is wiped out by an earhtquake
They didn't do what was necessary. They left a gaping hole in their security and ignored it until the shit finally hit the fan.
Hindsight is a wonderful asset.
Hindsight? They were warned about the security hole ahead of time. They did NOTHING about it. Then they got hacked.
Warned ahead of time?
[citation needed]
"They were warned about the security hole ahead of time. They did NOTHING about it. Then they got hacked."
*Citation Needed*
God bless you, Captain Hindsight! God bless you!
Who says they did nothing?
Sony has been doing nothing BUT fix security issues in the PS3 for the past 8 months.
They could have had the breach half fixed before getting hacked for all we know.
It depends on the nature of the attack, but if there had been threats, and if after those threats something happened, when Sony knew they had security issues, they could've just pulled the plug on PSN then. You can't hack what isn't online.
I also have to say, sure I don't work for Sony, but if something has such an abundance of security issues, why not issue some kind of warning or caution about them in general?
You could also blame the people who trusted Sony with their information themselves. Or to put it in your lingo, blame the people for living in a zone where earthquake's are likely to occur.
Of course, you could then also say, the builder was a fool for building a house in a earthquake zone without the necessary *insert word* to keep it up in the event that a earthquake occurs - then selling it as a good buy.
In the end, one thing you can be certain of however is: be wary about trusting another to store or manipulate your information.
Who could possibly know ahead of time that someone might want to target a large block of personal and financial information that's on network accessible systems? Is Sony supposed to be able to foretell the future? Let me put on my Captain analogy uniform. If my computer is infected by a virus it's my fault for not having the appropriate protections and clicking on that 'naughty picture of topless Japanese schoolgirls' link in my email. If Sony fails to safeguard critical user information Sony really couldn't help it.
Obviously, Sony should have used Macs instead of Windows machines as servers, or maybe PS3s running Linux.
I hope you're being sarcastic...
How could someone NOT expect people to attack a large block of personal and financial data on network accessible systems? Especially after there had been threats.