Another important message from Sony

[Ibrad]

It seems hackers once again tried to access Sony users accounts. This time Sony detected them quickly and locked down the account's try were trying to access

https://bitly.com/oLiY5N

 

[Jack]

Sony suffers another security scare - 93,000 user accounts broken into

Hackers successfully broke into 93,000 accounts at Sony over the last few days, once again impacting users of the Sony Entertainment Network, PlayStation Network (PSN) and Sony Online Entertainment services.

According to a blog post by Philip Reitinger, Sony's Chief Information Security Officer, credit card details were not compromised.

As a precautionary step, Sony has frozen the compromised accounts and will email impacted users asking them to confirm their identity and reset their passwords.

Some compromised accounts "showed additional activity prior to being locked," but the only hint from Sony as to what that activity might entail is that the company says it will "work with any users whom we confirm have had unauthorized purchases made to restore amounts in the PSN/SEN or SOE wallet."

What's interesting is that it appears that the hackers gained access to the Sony accounts by working through a large database of stolen usernames and passwords - believed to have been sourced from somewhere else. That suggests that the accounts which were broken into were using a non-unique password.

In other words, you were using the same password on the Sony PlayStation Network as you were on website X.

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[jamescv7]

RE: Sony suffers another security scare - 93,000 user accounts broken into

Its like they need to redesign their website for a more secure that it may little chance to hack. Seems its easily vulnerable.

 

[Ink]

I already posted this information, first thing this morning.

http://malwaretips.com/Thread-Update-on-PlayStation-Network-Hacked-Again-October-2011?pid=26177#pid26177

Cheers.