Yesterday, it was revealed that Sony Online Entertainment got itself hacked for a laugh. The result was the theft of 12,700 credit card numbers. Yet more bad PR and panic circulated the Internet, but there's a bit of "good" news for those potentially affected -- only 900 of these cards were active.
Turns out that the nefarious hackers ransacked an outdated database that went back as far as 2007, so most of the cards were invalid at the time of the breach. Nevertheless, if you've ever signed up for SOE's wares, you might want to check your statements a little more thoroughly.
It's a minor positive in a whirlwind of bad news for Sony. At this rate, things couldn't get worse if Jack Tretton kicked a puppy right on its arsehole. In fact, this might be his only chance to get away with it unnoticed. Do it, Jack!
24.6 million SOE accounts potentially compromised [GI.biz]
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12:40 PM on 05.03.2011 | 
We had a debit card skimming incident at work and we have about 12,000 members and had around 400 cards that were effected and had to be cancelled.
There is insurance for both parties involved (Bank/member), but people still like to make a big hubbub about it.
Read their latest statement on PS Blog.
For what?
...for the lulz
"We do good Boss?!"
"Gah! Knuckleheads! These ares expireds!"
also, by "not active", is it safe to assume they just mean that the expiration dates were bad? because , you know, if you have the old expiration date you can pretty much just add three years to that and i bet you're going to see much more than 900 of those cards working.
IT'S OVER 900!
How else do could you explain it's relevance despite numerous fuckups?
Is that your real guess or are you just kidding?
Make credit card and personal information protection exclusive to PSN+?
It's only 7%, not 14%
seems like really good news for Sony.
.0036% chance your info was stolen.
With E3 only a month away, it will be interesting!!!
You mean you didn't become a fan after reading my article about Regular Show?
Hmmmph
Hmmmph
OOOOOOooooooH!
Awesome! I'll check it out right now.
People forget what Windows XP was like initially, the dozens of viruses that were designed just around its flaws. Blaster, Sobig.f, Sasser... I despised Microsoft back in those days. They did learn their lesson and got much better at internet security... Sony will do the same.
Hmm...
I had a feeling 14% was too high. I only get stuff like that wrong 14% of the time.
"ONLY 900 CREDIT CARDS?! I heard that one guy raped 900 women out of 12,700 women present. It's alright though, because he only got 14% of them."
I guess those women just need to go to the police station and have their rapes cancelled then, right? Then everything'll be OK.
...Because it's apparently the same kind of thing, right? ;)