Multiple Sony servers attacked, again

[FireGrey]

poor sony. and firegrey why dont you buy games instead of wanting freebies?

I have the pirate's syndrome

 

[Guild McCommunist]

To all of you saying "When will they learn", hasn't this proved that they have? Personal info and credit card info was "never at risk". Doesn't that mean they've upped security? This is also .1% of PSN users affected. They've definitely upped security.

 

[RupeeClock]

I certainly still do not like Sony, but they don't deserve this.

 

[prowler]

WHEN WILL SONY EVER LEARN, CAN'T THEY JUST MAKE AN UNHACKABLE DATABASE?
CAN'T THEY JUST CALL FOR SOME HELP FROM AREA 51 OR THE CIA?

FUCKING SONY, I WANT FREE GAMES OR ELSE I'M GUNNA SUE

OH WAIT, I CAN'T EVEN SUE, THANKS SONY!

In all seriousness, you should never save your CC info on another server.

 

[shakirmoledina]

fools, what is sony doing wrong now huh? are u testing sony? well u fail and sony won
damn these hackers, just making life unnecessarily difficult

 

[Maedhros]

Don't mind me, just leaving this here:

Pretty pathetic seeing a bunch of news stations and internet news aggregates spew the headline similar to "Sony hit by ANOTHER massive hack!" The Canadian Press, Huffington Post, MSNBC...

Completely and utterly false. There is no hacking involved at all. Almost all of them even mention Sony saying that they were not hacked and that the information to access those 93,000 accounts came from outside services. Essentially, Sony is in the clear here, but every reporting is seemingly trying to paint this one on Sony. Unfortunately, most people will look at the headline and freak out and proclaim "death to Sony" before even reading the article, were almost all of them mention the following:

Sean Yoneda: "What happened in April was a breach on our servers as we said in our announcements... but this time around, there was no intrusion on our servers. This was ... taking someone else's identity and trying to use that to access our services."

All of the accounts affected were brute forced into using login credentials from somewhere else. Sony detected the unusually high number of failed login attempts and locked down the accounts. PSN wasn't actually breached at all, but specific accounts were because people are dumb and use the same login details for numerous places.

For once, Sony seems to be in the clear... for now at least.

I appreciate Sony being open and very transparent about this... but unfortunately, it will probably do more harm to them than good because everyone is going to sensationalize the news and make a crazy headline that will anger people immediately. Easy to spread misinformation about this. Well, I for one like that Sony is being more transparent and hopefully they can lead some change for everyone else in being openly transparent regarding network security and personal account security.

Woo, everyone acting like retards because it was with Sony, not everyone else and because we can't read past the headline.

 

[emigre]

DEATH TO SONY!!!

 

[naved.islam14]

Man, really this is just too much for $ony, I'm starting to feel sorry for them. Maybe someone who works at $ony did this ......

 

[Maedhros]

Man, really this is just too much for $ony, I'm starting to feel sorry for them. Maybe someone who works at $ony did this ......

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[HaniKazmi]

DEATH TO SONY!!!

Man, really this is just too much for $ony, I'm starting to feel sorry for them. Maybe someone who works at $ony did this ......

Explain to me how exactly it is Sony's fault this time?

 

[omgpwn666]

Not that big of a deal or attack. Sony is and will always be awesome.

 

[TLSS_N]

To all of you saying "When will they learn", hasn't this proved that they have? Personal info and credit card info was "never at risk". Doesn't that mean they've upped security? This is also .1% of PSN users affected. They've definitely upped security.

I want to point this our real quick. When I said, " when will sony learn" What I was referring to was that they tried to pull a fast one by changing the tos. Obviously, people will not take this lying down and they finally launched an attack.

 

[Thesolcity]

(As far as I understand) It was just a Bruteforce of trying a list of usernames/passwords. Things like this exist for every site including Minecraft, Pr0n sites, Facebook, filesharing sites, etc. Even GBATemp is vulnerable to this. That being said, I wouldn't call this a "hack", only a series of guessing with a 0.1% success rate by the looks of it.