Sony shuts down PlayStation Network Indefinitely

[Swinkid]

I have a growing urge to trade in my PS3 for an xbox right now, this is slightly annoyed me if full credit card details got stolen.

I know this can happen to Xbox too, but alot of my mates are on xbox and atm, i cant play with what friends i do have on the PS3 right now, this just adds to the cherry on the cake.

[dbgtz]

Apparently some people in the US have had hundreds of dollars stolen. I think they dare attempt using something international due to how obvious it would be. Assuming they are from the US of course. Anyway my dads bank would call him up and check and I think people under visa are making sure customers who are subject to fraud will get their money back so its all good.

[Cwmbran]

Why not? You'd get a free xbox.

Already got one.

That's the most idiotic thing i've ever heard

Lol chill out just trying to lighten the mood. Can't handle it go back to watching that stupid lil nyan cat over and over.

[Southe,]

I have all 3 consoles. never touch my wii and only play cod and fifa on my xbox. Will always prefer ps3 to xbox.

And some of the trolling comments.. if it had been me posting in a certain other thread no doubt the mods would be right there telling me off. why cant the mods actually be consistent on how they moderate the forums. Sure its ok to make a joke but theres plenty of xbox vs ps3 threads out there. This should for once focus on the actual topic of the thread which dosent concern xbox.

And truth be told im not even bothered that its been down a week. Given me time to finish off some games and get tropheys.

[Stephen]

Apparently a security research firm says that on average it costs a company around $300 per user when there's a security breach like this.. Could cost them like over $20 billion

[triston220]

ill be thinking of you guys with ps3s when im playing on my nice secure service

No such thing.

[Camy]

SOE stands for Sony Online Entertainment i think

When was this and how much did they take? Also to confirm what Technologic said: http://www.soe.com/ SOE indeed stands for sony online entertainment.

That's what I thought! I just wasn't sure because I have other things on my statement that say: "Payment to Playstation Network"

This was on the 14th, and they took £9.99, I haven't even looked at my ps3 for like 3 months :@

They better be refunding people or I will not be pleased, it's put me into negative money on my account, so I'm getting charged £5 a day :/

[Accipiter]

Thats what you get when you call yourself the unhackable console in all honesty.

[Oleh]

Sony are getting sued because of the breach. ROFLMAO

A class action lawsuit was filed against Sony a day after the company publicly admitted that personal information from PlayStation Network was compromised by a security breach. The lawsuit was filed by the Rothken Law Firm today in a California court and alleges Sony "failed to take reasonable care to protect, encrypt, and secure the private and sensitive data."

Yesterday, Sony said it believes an unauthorized personobtained PSN user information, including members' names, addresses, birthdays, and login passwords. The company said there was no evidence that credit card information was stolen, but did not rule out that possibility.

"We brought this lawsuit on behalf of consumers to learn the full extent of Sony PlayStation Network data security practices and the data loss and to seek a remedy for consumers. We are hopeful that Sony will take this opportunity to learn from the network vulnerabilities, provide a remedy to consumers who entrusted their sensitive data to Sony, and lead the way in data security best practices going forward," said Ira P. Rothken an attorney who filed the class action complaint.

"Sony's breach of its customers' trust is staggering. Sony promised its customers that their information would be kept private. One would think that a large multinational corporation like Sony has strong protective measures in place to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of personal information, including credit card information. Apparently, Sony doesn't," commented J.R. Parker, co-counsel in the case.

The lawsuit seeks monetary compensation for the data loss and "loss of use of the Sony PlayStation Network, credit monitoring, and other relief according to proof."

[Firehorse]

It just gets better and better for sony; although I doubt it, something like this could mean the end of playstation altogether.

That's what I thought! I just wasn't sure because I have other things on my statement that say: "Payment to Playstation Network"

This was on the 14th, and they took £9.99, I haven't even looked at my ps3 for like 3 months :@

They better be refunding people or I will not be pleased, it's put me into negative money on my account, so I'm getting charged £5 a day :/

ouch that really sucks... I thought being charged £1 a day for being overdrawn was bad! Thats charging you a 18250% interest rate. Madness!