The Playstation 3 is IDENTITY THEFT

Well, he's making a hyperbolic analogy for loud sweary effect. I lolled.

grey lady wags its finger disapprovingly
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/arts/video-games/sony-playstation-security-flaw-tests-consumer-trust.html?ref=video-games

i like scheisel better than the average eukyarote but this kind of serious cat stuff following his slavering fanboy diablo iii preview is nagl

I finally got my email from Sony last night

I just got the email. Thanks I guess.

man all this & i still cant play mortal kombat

Got round to checking, and it's so long since there was anything I actually wanted to buy on PSN that the card details they've lost were for a card which has already expired anyway. A year ago.

i finally got my email! yay! i feel so grown up

got mine. might save it to my usb fucking stick

that just doesn't sound right at all

Bit scared to turn on my PS3 -- is there any way right now for me to see what CC I had stored on PSN, if indeed I had one stored there?

Try turning it on without it being plugged into the internet.

it's already been taken, no worries about turning it on now.

Check your email history, search for anything sent from DoNotRe✧✧✧@a✧.playstat✧✧✧.n✧✧. Should tell you which cc you used.

Er.

DoNotReply. ac. playstation. net.

Turning on your Playstation, leaving it off, or whatever else is moot now because whatever could have been copied was on the remote end.

Found the email, no CC listed (does have my real address unfortunately) but I did buy a game over PSN sometime later...

never got an email

has there been a single confirmed case of unauthorized CC use that can be traced to this?

well aren't they saying that the cc details are encrypted, but the names and addresses are not?

so what can the crims do with that?

Apply for a credit card.

Identity theft!

Still so much speculation. I just put a fraud alert on my financial profile and I'll keep an eye out for charges for a while.

Is it like a global trend for PS3 fanboys to angrily insist they're fine with the situation and that everyone's blowing it out of proportion out of anti-Sony bias, or is it just a Eurogamer comment box thing

so before someone buys a timeshare in my name and I go to debtor's prison, I wanted to say I just bought Top Spin 4 and I think I'm going to like it a lot

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/05/sony-attacked-again-12700-non-us-cc-numbers-feared-stolen.ars

12,700 non-US customer credit or debit card numbers and expiration dates (but not credit card security codes) and about 10,700 direct debit records listing bank account numbers of certain customers in Germany, Austria, Netherlands and Spain may have also been obtained—we will be notifying each of those customers promptly

Waiting for PSN to get online again, just to see what I can do with the new portable toy

* Each territory will be offering selected PlayStation entertainment content for free download. Specific details of this content will be announced in each region soon.
* All existing PlayStation Network customers will be provided with 30 days free membership in the PlayStation Plus premium service. Current members of PlayStation Plus will receive 30 days free service.
* Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity subscribers (in countries where the service is available) will receive 30 days of free service.

gee, thanks guys

my CC got hijacked, but I got this cool ps3 "theme" for free :-)

* Each territory will be offering selected PlayStation entertainment content for free download. Specific details of this content will be announced in each region soon.

* All existing PlayStation Network customers will be provided with 30 days free membership in the PlayStation Plus premium service. Current members of PlayStation Plus will receive 30 days free service.

mystery prize + less than $5 worth of psn+ that i didn't want anyway

just wish they'd turn the account management thing back on so i can check which rubbish password i used

Useful: http://ispsnbackup.blogspot.com/

snore http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/05/sony-offering-identity-theft-protection-little-news-on-psn-re-launch.ars

getting tempted by the 360 tbh

My PS3 YLOD'd a week before this PSN nonsense happened. I had been thinking about either paying to have it repaired or even buying a new one, but now I am thinking about making the leap to 360 (or possibly just getting Apple TV and sticking to PC gaming).

yeh cos 360s are renowned for their reliability :p
or wait 12-18 months for next xbox maybe?
http://www.develop-online.net/news/37618/Develop-source-New-Xbox-console-on-desks-at-EA

tbf 360s die but iirc they dont vomit their users' personal information all over the internet

yeah, that's the thing. it was a total one-two punch to the nuts.

this massive international company is literally blaming this on the anonymous force of the internet to congress
which is some philip k dick shit iirc

Anonymous is the name of an organised thing though

organized is kind of reaching a little

i am spartacus is a little more like it

Went to click like on that urg. But yeah that.

xp haha, otm!

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2011/05/06/scee-identity-theft-protection-offering/

A week after I put fraud alerts on my credit via Equifax, I got a letter supposedly from TransUnion asking me for my SSN, permanent address verification, and $8. Sounds fishy as hell.

I still haven't had an email.

http://gizmodo.com/#!5799885/playstation-network-downtime-expected-to-last-six-weeks

I just want access to the store

I just want to watch MLB.TV!

wait, does it mean you can't access the internet at all on the ps3? ie no iplayer, 4od, i love film streams ?

It keeps telling me I need to be signed in.

But - weirdly - my games are capable of downloading updates...!