New PSN Hack endangers 93,000 accounts

[Dark Drakan]

According to reports this morning a new PSN hack has put 93,000 PSN users details at risk however thats the bad news. The good news is that the accounts compromised were the result of a 0.1% success rate of the hacking attempts and those accounts have now been locked until the issue is resolved.​

Sony's chief information security officer, Philip Reitinger, posted details of the hack on his blog...​

The hack was apparently carried out by testing "a massive set of sign-in IDs and passwords against our network database" which resulted in a 0.1 percent success rate for the hackers.​

he overwhelming majority of the pairs resulted in failed matching attempts," Reitinger explained. "It is likely the data came from another source and not from our Networks. We have taken steps to mitigate the activity. ess than one tenth of one percent (0.1%) of our PSN, SEN and SOE audience may have been affected.​

There were approximately 93,000 accounts globally (PSN/SEN: approximately 60,000 accounts; SOE: approximately 33,000) where the attempts succeeded in verifying those accounts' valid sign-in IDs and passwords, and we have temporarily locked these accounts. ​

Only a small fraction of these 93,000 accounts showed additional activity prior to being locked. We are currently reviewing those accounts for unauthorized access, and will provide more updates as we have them.​

Please note, if you have a credit card associated with your account, your credit card number is not at risk. We will work with any users whom we confirm have had unauthorized purchases made to restore amounts in the PSN/SEN or SOE wallet. The affected users will also get a "secure password reset" prompt email from Sony.​

We want to take this opportunity to remind our consumers about the increasingly common threat of fraudulent activity online, as well as the importance of having a strong password and having a username/password combination that is not associated with other online services or sites. We encourage you to choose unique, hard-to-guess passwords and always look for unusual activity in your account."​

 

[Gikoku]

Hm, I wonder if my account was one of them... haven't used it in years, guess I'll find out soon enough.

I sure wish these hackers could find something more productive to do with their spare time, they seem to have quite a darn bit of it. Morons.

 

[Cain]

I hate hackers. One hacked a forum I go on, hacked an Admins account, took every single members details, unbanned every member who had been banned, and then said he was doing it to warn us and that we should be grateful. Not as serious as this hacking, but it shows what sort of people most hackers are.

 

[Necromancer]

Sony just can't catch a break with this crap, can they? Oh well. I'm just glad that I only use an Xbox.

 

[Dark Drakan]

Sony just can't catch a break with this crap, can they? Oh well. I'm just glad that I only use an Xbox.

It was only 0.1% of users that were affected so a very small amount of the total of user on PSN and those signed up to the Sony Entertainment Experience.