Tackling Technology
Ask the Techie: What Should I Know About the PSN attack?
If you, or anyone in your household, was a member of the Play Station Network online gaming community--your information has been compromised. Here is what you should do.
Sony admitted this week that they suffered a major instrusion onto their network servers by a hacker or group. Their PSN (PlayStation Network for PlayStations and the PSP Go handheld gaming device) and Qriocity media services were affected. The outages started on April 20 and on the 22nd Sony admitted that there had been a malicious attack on the services. In a statement on the PlayStation blog, they admitted that user information was compromised. According to Sony (emphasis added) : "Although we are still investigating the details of this incident, we believe that an unauthorized person has obtained the following information provided by PlayStation Network/Qriocity account holders: name, address (city, state, zip), country, email address…
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Jean Westcott
5:15 pm on Thursday, June 2, 2011
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