(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Today, Sony admitted that the recent breach in the Playstation Network compromised the personal information of its users. The information they fumbled includes full names, home addresses, birthdays, e-mails, logins, and passwords. While Sony has not been forthcoming about the safety of credit card information, they have admitted to the strong probability that this has also been compromised. Sony recommends that customers check their credit report. We must conclude the PSN credit card database has been entirely compromised, otherwise Sony would never ask its customers to check their credit reports.

Sony’s incompetence has led to the collective loss of privacy for 69 million people on PSN. It is safe to assume that this will most likely lead to financial losses in a significant proportion that may already be targets of identity theft and phishing. Even in the unlikely event that the credit card information is proven safe, PSN users have been the victims of Sony’s destructive incompetence. Representatives of the 69 million Playstation Network users are to file a class-action suit shortly. Sony will pay for the damages they have incurred. The masses will not be satisfied with small PSN trifles in exchange for network downtime. This is far beyond the scope of network downtime.

The lack of transparency Sony has shown is shocking. It is apparent that they have no regard for their own users and plot each statement carefully just to set up profitable public relations. The most likely scenario is that Sony has known all the facts for weeks. The DDoS attacks by Anonymous gave Sony their best chance to fix the situation quietly and without blame. However, Sony has misjudged the gullibility and timidity of their consumers. With the help of Anonymous, PSN users have angrily demanded answers to the right questions at the right time. Now they demand to be paid back for Sony’s failure. Anonymous is on the side of PSN users even though they were quick to wrongly blame Anonymous. Anonymous exists to make sure those who are damaged by Sony will be repaid. Anonymous will file the class action suit if no one else will. Many within Anonymous have also been harmed by Sony’s incompetence.




UPDATE:

Today a class action lawsuit was filed against Sony for the following:

Sony failed to maintain a proper firewall and "computer security system," "failure to properly encrypt data," "unauthorized storage and retention of data," and violation of "Payment Card Industry Data Standard(s) and rules and regulations."

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Its not about them switching servers (which isn't what they are doing they are rebuilding them) Its about them not informing us that our CC information was released. That is illegal.

all of these anon people are idiots who want their 15 minutes of fame. Do you guys even know what exactly they did? They maxed the ping of the psn server by finding an exploit and basically made it crash due to a very large amount of people doing it at one time through an exploit. ooooooooooooooooooo i'm so smart that i did that. These anon people aren't crazy geniuses and hackers. They are just attention whores and are actually trying to use the excuse "OMG WE ARE THE VICTIMS BECAUSE SONY GOT HACKED, THEY GONNA BLAME IT ON US BECAUSE WE WANT TO BE SO AWESOME" NO,
a few people in anon may be that smart and if they are, they sure as hell are not going to come forward because law enforcement is looking fir them worldwide. Anon is just trying to ride the cocks of smart hackers to try and gain some publicity because they have realized that no one cares about them and that most of them are fat nerds who sit behind a computer 24/7 getting F's in school trying to do something which they think is fun which is illegal.

Gimme a break, Anon did not do this because they are not intellectually capable of doing something like this. These people who have hacked Sony now are the real deal and something which Anon could only dream to become.

No but its REALLY not okay for the hackers to get away. Explain to me what they did....

If a person's info isn't stolen what can they sue for.

A company shouldn't go down because they got hacked after numerous threats were made by hackers.

If info is comprised then sure something has to be done. Its just amazing people blame Sony MORE than the hackers.

They are switching, to a more secure one it says in one of there blogs, and they are makeing IT more secure.

you do realize the stuff the already accomplished, right?

THEY DID inform people... Also couldn't they just say "we didn't know what info was stolen at first.

what have they accomplished besides having an arrest warrant added to their name? I don't think anyone wants that as an accomplishment lmao.

1 confirmed by me.

That's 1 too many for my liking.

It is split its partially Sony's and the hackers, Sony's because they didn't protect us. The hackers for doing it. Its Sony's job to go after the hackers.

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No they didn't, they knew that our CC information was at risk a day after it happened.

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Um no the people that got into the servers did know what they were doing. Sony themselves killed the network, they didn't "max the ping" read the logs that were released. They knew what they were doing.