PSN Outage (And how it affects you, credit info stolen)

**Squirrel** · Last edited by Squirrel on Thu Apr 28, 2011 9:56 pm; edited 6 times in total

Hopefully everyone sees this.

Its been confirmed that when Sony got hacked, credit card info got leaked out.

Also, Hotz is off the hook.

http://www.destructoid.com/george-geohot-hotz-and-sony-settle-out-of-court-198595.phtml

Info about what could have happened when the hacks started... which is what happened now.

http://www.destructoid.com/is-rampant-piracy-to-blame-for-psn-downtime--199610.phtml

Account stuff stolen:

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/04/sony-admits-utter-psn-failure-your-personal-data-has-been-stolen.ars

A coworker of mine's wife just got called by the credit card company for three $100 charges on her card. It was used once on PSN.

**sportsboy85** · Joined: 02 May 2009 Posts: 1497

Both Sony and the hackers are to blame. But I just want to play online

**Squirrel** · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 4:34 pm Post subject:

**Sixen** · Joined: 11 Oct 2006 Posts: 1201 Location: Johnstown, NY

**Sottle** · Joined: 14 May 2006 Posts: 3050

Copy/Paste from a chatlog in FEBRUARY.

<user2> creditCard.paymentMethodId=VISA&creditCard.holderName=Max&creditCard.cardNumber=4558254723658741&creditCard.expireYear=
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2012&creditCard.expireMonth=2&creditCard.securityCode=214&creditCard.address.address1=example street%2024%20&creditCard.address.city=city1%20&creditCard.address.province=abc%20&creditCard.address.postalCode=12345%20
<user2> sent as plaintext
<user3> uh
<user3> did you censor that card?
<user2> ya its fake
<user3> good
<user1> wow, plaintext :S
<user5> plaintext wow
<user3> im never putting in my details like that
<user2> ya is all fake lol
<user2> i never used cc on ps3
<user2> normally you ATLEAST enccrypt the securtity code, even if its ssl
<user5> id hope sony would do such in a safe manner
<user5> psn cards probably plain text to then
<user2> fake certs are known since years as vuln so companies encrypt such data twice normally

Full link: http://pastie.org/private/97oth9v5tspkiztwwdmnga

Good enough for you?

I hope Sony get taking to fucking task for this, this is revolting. If they don't get sued for an absolutely crippling amount of money for transmitting MILLIONS of UNSECURED credit card numbers, there's no fucking justice.
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**Squirrel** · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 6:22 pm Post subject:

Thank you Sottle.

I knew they stole info... but to send it out as plain text? Are you really serious?

That's... amazing that they would take customer info and just release it as plain text. Then again, they thought their console would be not crackable, so they never bothered with things like this.

Still, even if it is claimed to be that, you should still at least send it out as encrypted.
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**Sarg338** · Joined: 07 Feb 2008 Posts: 5143

Lolplaintext. Sony needs some encryption up in that bitch.
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**Qarx** · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 6:37 pm Post subject:

**Enchiridion** · Joined: 03 Aug 2010 Posts: 663 Location: Sacramento, CA

I agree with the general view of the thread. At first, I thought they were shutting down because of the rampant hacking of some online games and attempts to breach their security. When I heard about GeoHot, I got sick to my stomach. What he was doing was absolutely harmless and innocent, in my eyes. Making a PS3 run another OS and opening up the PS2 emulation manually is nothing compared to how blown out of proportion it is now, especially when Sony should have released the PS2 emulation with every damn console in the first place.

I'm glad I traded mine in for my 360, to say the least.

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**Squirrel** · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 7:16 pm Post subject:

**Sottle** · Joined: 14 May 2006 Posts: 3050

Its so fucking pathetic that pretty much every place on the internet this is being discussed has degenerated into console war bullshit. This is not about Microsoft or Nintendo. This is about Sony, this is about possible criminal negligence on a global scale.

Just drop the fanboyism for one little second please internets?

Sorry, just needed somewhere to vent this where i have at least some faith in the general populace

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**Ontwikseltsaar** · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 7:49 pm Post subject:

**Sottle** · Joined: 14 May 2006 Posts: 3050