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Develop looks at the two turbulent weeks when Sonyâ??s online business fell into disarray
Read More »New hack exposes details of ’25m Sony customers’
Sony Online Entertainment old database exposed, despite previous assurances
Read More »Sony: CC details are not for sale
PlayStation Network operator Sony has dismissed claims that hackers who obtained user information from its servers have been trying to sell the data on the black market. "We want to state this again given the increase in speculation about credit card information being used fraudulently," SCEA’s senior director of corporate …
Read More »Now SOE confirms data theft
Games developer Sony Online Entertainment has confirmed it was attacked by hackers as part of last month’s PSN hack and that user data has possibly been compromised. In total the firm believes that it has lost around 12,700 credit card numbers with some 24.6m accounts being compromised. The attack took …
Read More »Hirai to brief press on PSN breach
Sony’s deputy president Kaz Hirai will host a media briefing tomorrow to address the issues surrounding the PSN saga – the first time a senior executive has spoken about the situation. He will discuss Sony’s ongoing investigation, its security systems and plans to restore the service. The news comes as …
Read More »How the PSN outage has affected devs
Develop speaks to developers to hear what affect the PSN outage has had on them
Read More »PSN: Credit card details up for sale
The ongoing PSN saga has taken a dramatic turn for the worse with evidence that hackers responsible for the PSN breach last week are attempting to sell users’ credit card details online. It’s believed that hackers have obtained unencrypted databases including names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, email passwords, date of …
Read More »New PS3 SDK ‘completely unrelated to PSN issues’
Studios not told of any such update since the PSN hack, Sony source says
Read More »First PSN lawsuit is filed
A US man has filed a lawsuit against Sony following the PSN hacker attack and user data leak that has seen the service shut down for over a week. As noted by Cnet, Kristopher Johns, 36, from Birmingham, Alabama, filed the suit yesterday in the US District Court for the …
Read More »Geohotz: PSN hack ‘is not cool’…
The hacker who arguably set the ball rolling on events that eventually lead up to the collapse of PSN last week has denied involvement in the breach – but has also taken the time to attack his former legal opponents. "And, as a onetime victim of identity theft, I feel …
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