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2011-10-12, 10:50 AM | [Ignore Me] #2 | ||
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I feel like this may be bad for PS2.
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2011-10-12, 11:38 AM | [Ignore Me] #4 | ||
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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, 02:26 PM | [Ignore Me] #7 | |||
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2011-10-12, 02:57 PM | [Ignore Me] #8 | ||
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, 09:07 PM | [Ignore Me] #11 | ||
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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, 09:57 PM | [Ignore Me] #12 | |||
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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, 10:07 PM | [Ignore Me] #13 | ||
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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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2011-10-14, 06:15 PM | [Ignore Me] #15 | ||
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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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