PSN Hacked

That’s a rather expensive way to shoot $50 worth of ammo.

Some of those comments are epic. It doesn’t matter how redneck you are, if you can afford a gold-plated .50 desert eagle you can definately afford to go out back and target shoot at a broken PS3. The commentors are just jealous that he’s got $3500 worth of guns in the truck and doesn’t hesitate at shooting a $500 console.

It’s always funny trying to watch someone “bump fire” a rifle. It’s hard as hell because you’re only holding it with 1 hand.

A few of the youtube trolls mentioned that his yellow ring of death was fixable. By fixable they probably mean send it to Sony and get it reformatted but hey let’s not split hairs here.

Not all of it…

Yeah but the store is the only part that was ever really compromised. In reality it should have been the only thing that was taken down.

As soon as you start linking credit card, address, and other store-related information to an online account, it ceases to be a “multiplayer account” and becomes a “store account”. There’s not a single online service where that doesn’t hold true. The store was the only service that was truely affected on the long term and in reality it’s been vulnerable since it was first brought online.

Regardless, they could have simply released a version number only update that made everyone reset their passwords. You know, similar to what they did after it came back up.

The rest of the security could have been fixed by firing their security team, the entirety of it, and contracting with someone for the short-term while they replaced their internal team. All the temporary team had to do was install actual software and hardware firewalls, you know, the kind that the rest of the business world uses. I haven’t heard of them actually firing or hiring anyone, I guess the Japanese weren’t too fond of Einstein: “You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it.”

If WCU can manage to secure their network using off-brand hardware and an all-talk, no-action CISSP I have no sympathy for any company that gets hacked.

Fair enough.

Sony seems to be giving a blanket 45 day bonus to SOE accounts but AFAIK their PC MMO games have plummeted and most are reporting weird lag spikes and trouble with forming parties. This is common when implementing newly developed security protocols but it usually only occurs in late alpha and very early beta stages, not in already released games with $14.99/month subscribers <_>

Even if they can only get the last 4 digits, it goes a long way in helping to crack the hashed database they got 3 weeks ago. That’s assuming the db was encrypted. Given the continual failure of Sony at anything involving the word security I’m leaning towards the notion that it wasn’t.

About time. My developer PS3 has a ton of free, uh I mean “paid for”, content to catch up on.

The “welcome back” content is still unavailable. Gee, what a surprise…

The words needed to describe this have left me. Sony has reached a point of failure I previously thought impossible.

Free message boards were more secure than that 10 years ago. Absolutely unacceptable.

These same guys also hacked Nintendo, like the day after hacking Sony. They either didn’t steal, or weren’t able to steal, any company or user info. In fact the only thing they claim to have gotten from it is a “config file.” Nintendo immediately acknowledged the breach of security and said they were already fixing it. No Nintendo online services were affected.