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PlayStation Web site hacked: SingStar fans are at risk!
10:11 AM on 07.02.2008, Jim Sterling 18 comments

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Sony's US Gamer Portal site has allegedly been hacked and now plays host to a trojan that is attempting to steal the credit card details of those visiting the SingStar and God of War promotional pages.

It's a very by-the-book scam -- the trojan activates a pop-up warning you of the deadly diseases your computer has contracted, performs a fake system scan and then kindly offers to fix all your problems if you hand over your credit card information. Also, if you help this Albanian millionaire (who writes in broken English) transfer all his funds to the US, you will be in line for a significant cut of the fortune. 

What a lovely way to celebrate the release of 2.40, right?


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MechaMonkey's Avatar
MechaMonkey at 07/02/2008 10:36
All you money have to me for a service I am you for doing.

I love foreign scams.
Redzie's Avatar
Redzie at 07/02/2008 10:37
bring on the sony hate. god im tired of all this crap.
Y0j1mb0's Avatar
Y0j1mb0 at 07/02/2008 10:59
Gosh Jim,

You mean people of questionable morals hacked a website that has nothing to do with the release of 2.40? Yup, that doesn't happen often.


lmao.
Drksan's Avatar
Drksan at 07/02/2008 11:01
Well maybe this will help seperate the idiots who would give their cc info to a random pop-up.
Faceless One's Avatar
Faceless One at 07/02/2008 11:23
I'm suddenly glad that i can't afford a ps3 all the crap on it is almost as bad as a 16% failure rate.
Itchy's Avatar
Itchy at 07/02/2008 11:33
Faceless one: Because you know you're one of the guys who fall for scams like these.
Drksan's Avatar
Drksan at 07/02/2008 11:47
@Faceless One

Guessing you never heard of the pretexting issue with the Live accounts. http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2007/03/23/pre-texting-the-cause-of-xbox-live-account-issues/

Still hasn't been resolved yet by the way or at least not successfully.
Jim Sterling's Avatar
Jim Sterling at 07/02/2008 12:57
Y0j1mb0: lol
Sharpless's Avatar
Sharpless at 07/02/2008 13:15
Figures PS3 fanboys would get unjustifiably butthurt by this post. Wankers.
Jim Sterling's Avatar
Jim Sterling at 07/02/2008 13:20
I don't get it. I just pointed out it was a shitty day for this to happen when 2.40 is out, and all of a sudden a bunch of people are upset.
brainderailment's Avatar
brainderailment at 07/02/2008 14:01
Argh! PS3 hate! RAWR!
konchu's Avatar
konchu at 07/02/2008 16:19
I don't take this as a flaw in the PS3 it only shows that a webmaster and maybe some admin that are on Sony's payrole outsourced or not didn't do their jobs to secure the site. To be fair crap happens that can't always be avoided but I read earlier on another site the hacker used a 7 month old exploit to do this. So somebody didn't patch and has some explaining to do.
Shinu's Avatar
Shinu at 07/02/2008 17:35
wait... this scam actually happens on the PS3 console??
brainderailment's Avatar
brainderailment at 07/03/2008 01:01
@Shinu

No, but you would think so by some of the idiotic comments above.
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