It is not ps3 users jumping ship conjecture... GameStop has stopped trading in PS3's. FullStop...
That is not to say there has been a mass exodus of PS3 users, it only confirms that GameStop doesn't want anymore used PS3's in their inventory. And certainly not at a time when they can't check for console bans...
But none the less, I am glad I sold my PS3 last week when the outage first started.
At the very least everyone whos card was exposed will get a letter from the credit card company, and just the mailing fees for all those letters will be in the 10s of millions of dollars. After getting that letter many will opt to have their card replaced, which is more costs etc... All of which Sony will have to pay for.
So the 300 million number might be large, but there will certainly be dozens of millions of dollars of damage...
So
Well also, the hackers have all of the personal information, so there are no defenses in place to prevent the hackers from hijacking accounts when PSN eventually comes back up. See they have your userid and password, so all they have to do is log onto your account before you do, reset the password and your account is basically compromised at that point.
This isn't over by a long shot.
So in other words, when PSN if finally back up the hackers will be hijacking accounts in mass because they will have everyones username and password and they will be reseting everyones password. lol
@Flatbattery
Right after the earthquake, when the first Fukushima building exploded, TEPCO was telling the media that it was no big deal that the building exploded, and the media took TEPCO at their word.
Wait, were you able to ever get Hulu before this? Oh so you are just another ps3 troll in the wrong article, gtfo.
@Dart
The computer I am on is an old laptop that I installed slackware linux on, because windows xp sucks so hard on old computers. My admin account name is root, and my admin password is mumblypeg.
I am perfectly unhackable.
I am finding the current situation very entertaining!
Yeah, here is a vector for hacking xbl... Say you used the same username and password on psn as you used on XBL, now the hackers can totally pwn your account on xbl.
Clearly this shows the errors of XBL security methodology.
I think it is one of the fishy weasel wordy things that Sony has been saying for the last week...
And now they are gonna add a SDK (that they came up with in a week???)
I think this rebuild will be more notable for what it removes from PSN than what it adds...
It is the hackers fault that Sony stored passwords in plain text format???
Just imagine how bad birthers feel today...
Sony lost half a billion dollars in 2010...
so now you guys are saying that Sony is getting into the spam business??? And you guys still stick with this company?
70 million unrequested emails... just wow that is a lot of spam.
I am reading lots of weasel words in that there link. Sony then goes on to tell you to act like your credit card number had been compromised.
I think they gave you the lawyers answer to the question "has credit data been stolen" in a sort of non-admission admission sort of way.
Hulu was more compelling when it launched... Now days it seems sorta meh...
That was the deal, make me watch ONE commercial, and I will watch your commercial, go ahead and make it a minute long.
But now I have have pay to watch a bunch of commercials... Meh, if I have to pay I will just buy the episodes off of zune.
Bob Dylan says Hai!
"Subject to terms and conditions"
Otherwise man up, give your bank a call and pay the fee for a new cc#.
Number one on this list should be "buy xbox and see why people go nuts for Halo"
Crap this means we won't get a new xbox anytime soon...