The latest case involves Sony detecting a mass attempt to sign in to PSN accounts with a job-lot of user names and passwords, which the company says it believes may have been obtained through a third-party rather than extracted from PSN itself. Fortunately, the “overwhelming majority” of user name and password combinations failed.
However, Sony believes approximately 93,000 accounts (33,000 in Europe) have been compromised, with outsiders able to correctly sign in to PlayStation Network using the stolen data. Those accounts have now been “temporarily locked” pending a new password reset and account validation scheme.
Sony says credit card data is safe, and it’ll refund anyone should they find evidence of any suspicious activity. [Sony via T3]
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Sam D
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 8:08 AMI wonder when Sony will stop making security an afterthought?
Actually, by the sounds of this one, it was from phishing and keyloggers, so not entirely Sony’s fault.
yrrnn
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 2:15 PMAnd Sony actually detected it and has taken appropriate action. So kind of a win for them.
Dan Miller
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 8:23 AMI’ve been a faithful supporter of the playstation brand since the first PS. But the PS brand is failing. The only reason I am keeping my PS3 is for Blu-Ray and uncharted 3.
Ronny
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 8:50 AMbut they said the accounts were taken from a 3rd party source, then the hackers tried to see if people used the same user/password combinations for their sony accounts – if they had sony accounts.
derp
Chris
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 9:25 AMExactly Ronny, seems to me this story is written by news corporation, create the sensational angle.
Sounds to me like Sony did everything right, they detected it, they stopped it and locked accounts. The users did everything wrong. There is nothing Sony can do about that.