Sont's own faq uses corporate weasel words to describe the disposition of cc# data which is why you should take action based upon the certainty that your cc# was stolen along with all your personal data.
The only reason Sony hasn't admitted, and wont admit, that your cc# was stolen is legal liability.
But other than that, you should do what sony tells you to do, call your bank and request a new cc#. Although you have to read between the lines of the ...
It is a gaming news aggregation site, PSN being down is definitely news, big news even, there are lots of stories to aggregate. Everything is working as it should.
Well except for PSN, which will be up in the next week or so according to the FAQ, which is a change of their prior statement which was "a day or two" and that was wrong...
Baseless rumors are what happens when a fortune 500 companies service goes off line for a week and they have offered a grand total of two paragraphs of information to fill the void.
Wha???
I read this as "Patcher confirms that PS3 will suffer massive sales lost due to PSN network outage"
Because Patcher is ALWAYS wrong.
iirc, you are supposed to buy stocks that are going up, and sell the stocks that are going down...
A week so far, as this stretches into weeks and months, you can bet people will be selling their PS3's.
The real damage is the PSN store. If gamers even think twice about keying in their cc# into their PS3 at the time of purchase, it will massively affect sales on PSN arcade games. It is my bet that the small titles are overwhelmingly impulse buys.
The good news is that these companies will be willing to do XBLA exclusive deals, and the XBLA market is still growing.
@below,
XBLA is discussed in article. I submit you are a troll for commenti...
I would take that as confirmation that your cc# has been compromised, and call your bank immediately, and have them issue you a new account number and eat the $5 or whatever it is your bank charges for a new cc#.
As a small investor you are foolish to be investing in a company that is currently losing money.
In fact, as a small time investor, I think you should avoid all the large cap tech stocks like the plague until they come up with a product like the iPhone...
There is still massive growth potential in the midcap wind energy companies, and companies that develop coal for export (although those have all been cramered for the last week...)
Also, as ...
cyclonus007,
PSN getting hacked will make the internet more secure because it is one thing when we learn that Gawker used a plain text password storage scheme for commenting accounts, and it is an entirely different thing when we learn that Sony used a plain text password storage scheme.
You can bet that any company that is still using plain text password storage schemes is reviewing that decision today.
Additionally I would like to see addit...
Wow, and it bears repeating for the umpteenth time...
Sony stores passwords plain text???
Once again... All this security breach has to do is cause people to think twice about keying in their cc# into PSN and PSN is finished as a place where Sony does business.
That is a disaster for Sony, no matter how you try and minimize it. But also, it appears that Sony is in clear violation of PCI DSS security standards, so at the very least, Sony is looking at a multi-million dollar fine from the credit card companies.
Actually, I am willing to bet that Microsoft in particular hashes their password info so passwords can not be stolen from XBL, that alone makes a hack like happened on PSN not possible on XBL,
PCI DSS standards, read it and weep Sony Fanboys
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
Sooooo, from reading the n4g comments, the PS3 could transform into a robot and kill your mother and little sister and you guys would be like "this could happen to anybody"
So Id have to say that the PS3 image has not been tarnished at all.
All it has to do is cause people to think twice about keying in their cc# and massive damage has been done to PSN.
Because anything that suggests that the 360 is mildly better than the ps3 in any way is clearly trolling.
No really, it is perfectly normal and natural for fortune 500 computer networks to be hacked by a bunch of teenagers in 2011
in the movies
You mean week... At least.
No they got "hacked" means you defaced their main web page for a few minutes or hours. PSN was completely and utterly pwned.
Stop under-reacting, this is the end of PS3 online gaming. Sell your console before it is too late and loses all of its trade in value.
@below,
Not an overreaction. If rounded up all your PS3 paraphernalia right now, you could be down to Gamestop before they close tonight, and have yourself a brand new Xbo...