Post: Stolen PS3 Tracked Through PlayStation Network!
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08-18-2008, 01:10 AM
#1
Public Account
Big Sister
This is almost unbelievable.
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Dustin Waller was a happy guy with a loving fiancee who was kind enough to buy him a PlayStation 3. But one day police knocked on his door and informed Waller that they'd tracked his stolen PS3 through the internet. That bitch! (OK, she actually didn't steal the console).
Apparently the system had been purchased from a local pawn shop and Waller, not knowing how the PlayStation 3 worked, assumed that the account already on the system was automatically generated. So he'd been logging in under someone else's name—someone who'd reported their system stolen as part of a larger ring of crime.
The police (we're assuming with the help of Sony) tracked Waller's IP and found the address of the PS3 (where it was immediately confiscated). While Microsoft has aided authorities in tracking Xbox LIVE threats and the occasional theft, we've never heard of busting anyone through PSN. Way to crack the skulls, Sony!
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Dustin Waller was a happy guy with a loving fiancee who was kind enough to buy him a PlayStation 3. But one day police knocked on his door and informed Waller that they'd tracked his stolen PS3 through the internet. That bitch! (OK, she actually didn't steal the console).
Apparently the system had been purchased from a local pawn shop and Waller, not knowing how the PlayStation 3 worked, assumed that the account already on the system was automatically generated. So he'd been logging in under someone else's name—someone who'd reported their system stolen as part of a larger ring of crime.
The police (we're assuming with the help of Sony) tracked Waller's IP and found the address of the PS3 (where it was immediately confiscated). While Microsoft has aided authorities in tracking Xbox LIVE threats and the occasional theft, we've never heard of busting anyone through PSN. Way to crack the skulls, Sony!
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08-18-2008, 10:58 AM
#11
Ronye West
Anti-HSx9
Originally posted by NanuGama
Thats kewl
So much we can do with technology
So much we can do with technology
yeah but kinda f**** the world up lol
08-18-2008, 01:37 PM
#13
beane13
Splicer
Originally posted by chaos153
What happened to the guy who ended up with the stolen PS3? Arrested? Money back?
he probably wasn't charged with anything and got a refund but i want to know about the pwn shop owner, he sold a stolen ps3 he should go to jail right
08-18-2008, 03:24 PM
#15
DirtyDudeOnline
:y::n:
lol idk why people break into homes just to steal the ps3, just shows how 1337 the system is 
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