After the PlayStation Network was hacked earlier this year, Sony tried to welcome back users with free games. They’ve now extended the apology by offering a year’s free access to CSIdentity’s identity protection services, including CyberAgent Internet Surveillance. Here’s the email they’re sending out:
Australian PSN members (including myself) started receiving the emails this week. You’ll need to be over 18, and have had an active PSN account on the 20th of April 2011. All up, about 1.5M Aussie accounts were potentially breached, some of which had credit card and Qriocity logins attached.
CSIdentity claims to “scour the dark side of the Internet for unauthorized use of your identity.” They provide 24/7 monitoring of criminal web pages, chat rooms, sharing sites, etc to monitor your identity and credit details. You can find out more info at [csidentity.com/sony]
Jonathan
Friday, August 12, 2011 at 12:50 PMlol was this legit? i thought it was phishing and reported as such.
the last thing i need to do to prevent identity theft is hand out my info to even more organisations…
Lasty
Friday, August 12, 2011 at 1:29 PMI didn’t think it was legit either…??
I already deleted the email too.. :-(
cayal
Friday, August 12, 2011 at 1:37 PMlol @ above. I would have thought the same but I knew they were offering it. Though I didn’t think it was being offered to Australians.
Maverick
Friday, August 12, 2011 at 2:48 PMNo email yet, even if I did with the YLOD I can’t do anything anyway
Grayda
Friday, August 12, 2011 at 4:06 PMDidn’t read it. Too busy playing SNES on my Jailbroken PS3.
iann0036
Saturday, August 13, 2011 at 7:38 PMWhat a terrible service! I signed up with fake details to see how advanced their service is. This is basically Google Alerts but with your credit card numbers and phone numbers. And their “Identity restoration pack”? One HTML page with basic things to do which should be common sense anyway. Poor effort Sony :(
SS
Monday, August 15, 2011 at 11:09 AMIs this some sort of sick joke on sony’s behalf? How can people take them seriously after this? let alone the hacking scam!
The website looks dodgy as hell too, you’ve got to be insane to agree to this. What a f*%k up. Way to go sony!!