Official PSN discussion thread

[tigstah]

Companies get hacked all the time. Remember TJX? Did people stop shopping there? maybe a few people but I still see lots full at Marshalls and TJ MAXX

dsw got hit twice.......

[Scikotic]

Still anxiously awaiting.

What I really want is to download both of the COD map packs for free, but who knows if they will offer that up?

I dunno, I'm about to beat Uncharted 2. I won't have much offline stuff to do while I wait for it to come back up.

Sigh....

[Spidey]

Welp, I've been victimized (at least I think. Could be purely coincidental but I doubt it after years of no issues).

Woke up this morning to numerous text messages to me from people asking why I sent them inappropriate messages yesterday (which in actuality I did not send). So I logged onto google (I use google voice for my texting with my android phone) and sure as shit there are a bunch of ridiculous text messages to people from my contacts. So it appears my google account was compromised. Further evidence came when I hopped into gmail and it showed my gmail account in use elsewhere. That sucked but hey, no major damage right.

Wrong. This morning my bank called regarding a large attempted purchase in Brazil. Thankfully they denied the purchase and all is well. Card is cancelled. The only real issue is that I have to get a new card but I leave for Vegas this weekend. So I had to pay extra to get the shipping of the card expedited so that it made it to me this week.

Overall, not the worst thing ever but it does suck knowing someone has my info. When I got to work this morning I purchased a year of LastPass and went to work replacing all of my passwords with unique new generated secure passwords. For $12 a year, it seems worth it to me.

As for what this means going forward, I've obviously lost a lot of faith in Sony, especially cause they let it happen again to their PC online. I have all the consoles and wont get rid of my PS3. I'd keep it for The Show and Blu Ray alone. But I am going to have a really hard time using it for online things going forward. Certainly wont put a credit card in there again.

[Sven Draconian]

Why would anybody switch to 360 over this?

Credit Card-100% fraud protection. This is a highly public story so there won't be a lot of doubt when you report it. The only real "concern" is getting a bunch of junk e-mail...but hey...that's what the "spam" button is for.

Or...buy a 360 and have it break in 8 months....and still go 2 weeks without playing online.

[jms493]

Wow that sucks spidey! I have identity guard....lets see if this shit works!

[Spidey]

Wow that sucks spidey! I have identity guard....lets see if this shit works!

Ya, its a bummer but like I said, it wasn't that bad. Minus the inconvenience of having to inform people about the text messages. The only other inconvenience was paying to make sure I got my card back before Vegas. All in all, it could have been infinitely worse.

[Colonel Angus]

I wish they would just get this back up. For some reason Netflix isn't working for me anymore either and now I am seriously pissed...

[QuietStorm]

So much for PSN coming back today.

Guess I'll go buy the new Black Ops maps.

[PP]

Welp, I've been victimized (at least I think. Could be purely coincidental but I doubt it after years of no issues).

Woke up this morning to numerous text messages to me from people asking why I sent them inappropriate messages yesterday (which in actuality I did not send). So I logged onto google (I use google voice for my texting with my android phone) and sure as shit there are a bunch of ridiculous text messages to people from my contacts. So it appears my google account was compromised. Further evidence came when I hopped into gmail and it showed my gmail account in use elsewhere. That sucked but hey, no major damage right.

Wrong. This morning my bank called regarding a large attempted purchase in Brazil. Thankfully they denied the purchase and all is well. Card is cancelled. The only real issue is that I have to get a new card but I leave for Vegas this weekend. So I had to pay extra to get the shipping of the card expedited so that it made it to me this week.

Overall, not the worst thing ever but it does suck knowing someone has my info. When I got to work this morning I purchased a year of LastPass and went to work replacing all of my passwords with unique new generated secure passwords. For $12 a year, it seems worth it to me.

As for what this means going forward, I've obviously lost a lot of faith in Sony, especially cause they let it happen again to their PC online. I have all the consoles and wont get rid of my PS3. I'd keep it for The Show and Blu Ray alone. But I am going to have a really hard time using it for online things going forward. Certainly wont put a credit card in there again.

Was your PSN password the same as your gmail password?

[Spidey]

Was your PSN password the same as your gmail password?

Thats kinda the mystery for me. No it wasn't. It had been, but I changed it pretty much immediately when Sony announced that data had been taken. Thats why I stuck in purely coincidental comment. Its possible this happened and it was unrelated to PSN.

[padman59]

who the fuck uses that skin?

It's easier on my eyes.

[KNUBB]

Sony is about to turn on the PSN.

[padman59]

Sony is about to turn on the PSN.

Don't play with my heart KNUBB.

[KNUBB]

I'm not. They are really about to turn it back on. I promise. If it isn't on in an hour I'll ban Maynard

[QuietStorm]

I'm not. They are really about to turn it back on. I promise. If it isn't on in an hour I'll ban Maynard

Source?

I need a solid source.