Massively and SOE are reporting that 33,000 SOE accounts were compromised.
The good news is that less than 0.1% of Sony's entire playerbase has been affected. The bad news is that that leaves around 33,000 SOE players -- in addition to Sony Entertainment Network and PlayStation Network customers -- whose accounts were hacked. Following the intrusion, Sony temporarily locked the accounts and is investigating the situation.
If you were among the small percentage of SOE customers affected you will receive an e-mail with instructions on how to proceed. Check out SOE's full post here on the official forums.
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2011-10-12 09:42 AM
Source: Massively
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| 2011-10-12 09:42 AM | ||
| Hamma |
33,000 SOE Accounts Hacked http://www.planetside-universe.com/n...acked-2569.htm |
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| 2011-10-12 11:50 AM | ||
| Geist |
I feel like this may be bad for PS2. 
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| 2011-10-12 11:54 AM | ||
| NapalmEnima |
Re: 33,000 SOE Accounts Hacked They really need to get their shit together. |
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| 2011-10-12 12:38 PM | ||
| Synnoc |
Re: 33,000 SOE Accounts Hacked Bear in mind that this isn't Sony's fault. They're saying that someone had a list of names/passwords and tried a bunch of them. Some worked. Most didn't. The fault lies in those that never changed their password when the real breach happened some months back, as well as those that share passwords among several services. |
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| 2011-10-12 02:23 PM | ||
| Marth Koopa |
Re: 33,000 SOE Accounts Hacked A good majority of those people are probably those that purchase illegal services such as currency/items, power leveling, and cheats. |
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| 2011-10-12 02:54 PM | ||
| Aaron |
Re: 33,000 SOE Accounts Hacked I got one of the emails...Oh boy. |
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| 2011-10-12 03:26 PM | ||
| Hamma |
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| 2011-10-12 03:57 PM | ||
| Lartnev |
Re: 33,000 SOE Accounts Hacked At least they're being up front about it this time. Security is a difficult thing to get right and requires an ingrained culture to get it right. Each time something like this happens to a big company and makes news is a step towards a safer digital age. |
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| 2011-10-12 03:59 PM | ||
| none |
Re: 33,000 SOE Accounts Hacked Sony really needs to get a better Network Security team. It's not like MySQL injections are new or anything. They should be able to test there sites and fix the issues. Come on guys. 
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| 2011-10-12 04:50 PM | ||
| Crator |
Re: 33,000 SOE Accounts Hacked Ok, good. I was about to seriously question Sony's integrity if it was a perimeter breach again. |
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| 2011-10-12 10:07 PM | ||
| Traak |
Re: 33,000 SOE Accounts Hacked Or, Sony is just purging any accounts that people don't show up to fix their passwords on. That was what I figured last time it happened. What better way to purge old, inactive accounts than to claim a breach? Remember when Photobucket just randomly eliminated all or almost all of its online image database from being publicly accessible, claiming some reason or another? Storage costs money. Costs can be reduced by staging a "disaster" or "attack" and *poof* storage costs plummet. I don't know what really happened, or if anything really happened. But, if something happens that ends up as a benefit to Sony, with no cost to Sony, legally or otherwise, then it makes me wonder. |
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| 2011-10-12 10:57 PM | ||
| Geist |
Re: 33,000 SOE Accounts Hacked
I'm sure this would have been easily dealt with, but with the full-scale hacking just a few months ago, it may be harder to deal with PR wise. |
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| 2011-10-12 11:07 PM | ||
| Crator |
Re: 33,000 SOE Accounts Hacked Well, these sorts of things happen all the time actually. Someone used account info they obtained from somewhere outside of Sony's systems and tried a brute force attack against SOE login servers. And then SOE staff caught the activity and shut it down. |
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| 2011-10-13 02:06 PM | ||
| Lartnev |
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| 2011-10-14 07:15 PM | ||
| Hamma |
Re: 33,000 SOE Accounts Hacked Another update: http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10...-recent-hacks/ It was just a brute force attack really and not a hack, probably happens everyday. |
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