Sony Playstation Network Hacked – Only 77 Million Accounts Compromised

Sony PlayStation Network

While Sony is splashing their cash on different lawsuits and chase people who crack their legitimately bought consoles they welcomed hackers into their network with open arms and allowed them to walk away with 77 million free identities.

So if you are one of Sony’s  Playstation Network and Qriocity “valued customers” you should know that your personal details are being prepared to be sold on underground forums near you.

PlayStation Network and Qriocity user account information was successfully offloaded between April 17 and April 19 and the attackers walked away with tons of information.

The information stolen according to Sony is: name, address (city, state, zip), country, email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity password and login, and handle/PSN online ID.

You credit card number and expiry date have also been compromised – that is if you used your card through PlayStation or Qriocity.

Sony doesn’t know if your profile data, including purchase history and billing address (city, state, zip), and your PlayStation Network/Qriocity password security answers have been obtained but if they say that they “don’t know” you can safely assume that they have obtained that info and they are just trying to downplay the impact of this event.

Subaccount (dependants accounts) data have also been compromised so the attackers also know your child’s name and other info.

If you are one of Sony PSN “customers” you should get an email from Sony telling you more about this mega breach.

In an online statement after the hack Sony said:

Sony takes information protection very seriously and will continue to work to ensure that additional measures are taken to protect personally identifiable information.

Errm is it not a bit late for that?

If you always use the same password on different websites, then you should seriously start changing them now before attackers compromise your email and social network accounts. You might also want to keep an eye on your bank account statements.

While all this is going on Microsoft is rubbing their hands and Apple is thanking Sony for making everyone forget about their iPhone location tracking privacy issue.