PSN outtage

[Seraphimsan]

Sooo how bout that leak of user info and what is likely to be the biggest breach of personal information in the history of the internet...

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/04/26/update-on-playstation-network-and-qriocity/

[Albatross]

Congratulations, Sony. You really should have paid your programmers a bit more just to make sure that this sort of thing wouldn't happen.

(Thank goodness I don't have a PS).

-Albatross

[Seraphimsan]

Same, I haven't been into console gaming since I built my first PC. But a lot of my friends do have a PS3, and the majority of them aren't the most tech savvy so they are pretty much freaking the eff out.

[firedraco]

Ouch. Fortunately, I haven't bought anything on PSN so I'm not as concerned...although this explains the slight increase is spam mails I've gotten recently...

I just hate the fact I can't play games with my friends. -_-

[king214]

3.Quickly taken steps to enhance security and strengthen our network infrastructure by re-building our system to provide you with greater protection of your personal information.

What do you think "re-building our system" means?

[Seraphimsan]

I'd say they are completely rewriting the server software.

[Albatross]

Uh-oh.

If that were the case, which for the sake of the many people who have a PSN account I hope it isn't, didn't Sony learn anything from Microsoft's past attempts at completely rewriting their software?

-Albatross

[king214]

I just hope that the credit card numbers wheren't "violated".

[xander333]

Pheww, I haven't bought anything from PSN :)

[1yR4jE8b]

Sony has just released some info about the down-time. *All* personal information has been comprimised although they aren't sure about credit cards.

Source:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/04/sony-admits-utter-psn-failure-your-personal-data-has-been-stolen.ars?&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=addtoany

[king214]

http://mega64.com/2011/04/30/ferps-ps3-safety-tips/

This is helpful *cough cough*

[thepedestrian]

This should be good news.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/04/30/press-release-some-playstation-network-and-qriocity-services-to-be-available-this-week/