Sony Online Entertainment hacked

[BloodOmen]

Yep, they've been hacked again in a different part this time so anyone with an Everquest II account or any other account affiliated with SoE might want to check it asap and make sure no one has siphoned your bank account of money. Its estimated 25,000,000 customer details were stolen including game account/credit/debit card details.


p.s poked around the forums and seen no thread like this so sorry in advance if its already been posted and i've missed it.

 

[pikeh]

They also took a SOE facebook game offline as well.

 

[Fafnir]

aparently they new about the security flaws and decided not to do anything about it.

 

[Zenith.UK]

It's called security through obscurity.
It works as long as people don't know it exists. Once they know, it's wide open.

 

[BloodOmen]

quite annoying really, I wont be touching anything to do with SoE again after this which is sad given i've been a customer of them since EQ1. it could happen to any game company in all fairness but it doesnt change how piss poorly sony have gone about it.

on another note about PSN I think this will have an impact on future PS3+ sales (not alot in all fairness) but it'll certainly push a fair amount of people over to future microsoft/nintendo releases, what happend to SoE certainly wont help it either.

 

[Zenith.UK]

I hear ya.
The day it was taken offline was the day I bought Portal 2. I'm still waiting to link my SteamID to my PSN so I can activate my PC copy. I've completed the single player and got all the single player trophies. I've had a short play (about an hour) of co-op with my daughter but need to put some serious time into co-op online. I'm hoping to get my first platinum off the back of Portal 2.

 

[roohouse]

oh, that's really terrible things, yet lucky that i haven't been enrolled