The Great Playstation Outage of 2011
On April 17th Sony shut down the PlayStation network due to a massive security breach. Nearly a week later Sony finally “came clean” on what was taken from their databases. Among the information taken are your name, address, zip code, country, birth date, password, gamer tag, and even your security question. First of all, all of this information should have been encrypted, secondly, the passwords should have been hashed… Sony said that the credit card information was encrypted but they don’t believe that it was taken. I was among the more than 70 million users to have this information taken, and encrypted or not I am canceling my credit card… It would only be a matter of time before the encryption is broken.
All of this bothers me deeply; however, I think it is the pure lack of communication from Sony and the uncaring disposition they have towards their customers currently. Not to mention that it is the 7th of May and they still are not being completely forthcoming about this event… Nor is the PlayStation network back up. So for all of those gamers out there who thought that they were going to get their Portal 2 or Mortal Combat fixes, they instead got the best gift of all, identity theft straight from Sony. Thanks!
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