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I'm looking at all the news on this very closely. I am seeing them reading various outlets and Sony themselves reporting that damn near everything associated with my account (PSN ID, e-mail, address, real name, birthday, password, challenge questions, order history, billing information) were all accessed. They say it is possible my credit card was as well but they don't know for sure.
The biggest problem I have with all of this is Sony in how they handled the problem.
They (Sony) claim this breach took place April 17-19th. They then shut down the PSN on the 19th-20th. When the PSN first went down we were told NOTHING, you try to log in and you just got a generic error code. Then after a day, when all the talk on the 'net of Anonymous being the ones responsible for it going down Sony came out and said it was just some maintenance and everything would be back up in a couple of days.
Fast forward a couple more days then Sony comes out and says it was an external factor that caused them to shut it down, now a few more days later they want to come out and play damage control and tell me what all has been accessed and how much more could have been?????
I don't care if the service is free or I pay for it, no one IMO should be anything other than outraged by this blatant mishandling of the truth, plain and simple.
I'm seeing more people pissed they cannot play Gran Turismo than I am people mad that all of their personal information may be out there in someone's hands making identity theft a very real possibility as a result of this issue. This isn't like the simple breaches in the past where a database containing my name and e-mail address were compromised. This data breach is the exact thing that malicious individuals are looking for that lead to identity theft and other problems for the user who had their information stolen.
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