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QUOTE said:PSN not only appears to have become victims of hackers, including Sony's platform mmo Sony Online Entertainment has been looted. Here are millions of account details and bank details stolen Dutch captured.
Sony rushed the plug Monday from his online portal Station.com and related servers are pulled Online Entertainment Service. Sony Online Entertainment is best known as a major developer of MMOs like EverQuest and DC Universe Online. Now that the servers were taken offline, players of different mmo's no access to the game worlds.
Sony did not initially releasing details on the reason for it from the air of Sony Online Entertainment. Meanwhile it is clear that external experts during their investigation into the PSN hack have found evidence that SOE victim of an attack. This hack took place several days before the attackers managed to penetrate PSN.
In a statement, Sony states that in the SOE to hack accounts is approximately 24.6 million, including names, addresses, addresses, phone numbers and login names in the database were stored. The passwords are captured, though Sony stresses that these are hashed.
The attackers also have an outdated database from 2007 to gotten containing 10,700 records with bank records of customers from Netherlands, Germany, Spain and Austria. These data, including bank account number, names, customer names and addresses, are ever used for direct debit payments. The same database also contains 12,700 credit card numbers with expiry date of users who are not living in the U.S..
Sony said the affected customers by mail about it will bring the burglary. Allows the manufacturer to compensate users thirty days free subscription on top of the free extra day that the manufacturer charges for each day that the downtime lasts.
Who is behind the attacks, is still unknown. The attackers had to hack the PSN 77 million accounts seized. The SOE-hack brings the total number to over 100 million, making it possibly the largest digital theft to date.
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