33,000 SOE Accounts Hacked

Hamma · 2011-10-12, 09:42 AM

http://www.planetside-universe.com/n...acked-2569.htm

Geist · 2011-10-12, 11:50 AM

I feel like this may be bad for PS2.

NapalmEnima · 2011-10-12, 11:54 AM

They really need to get their shit together.

Synnoc · 2011-10-12, 12:38 PM

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.

Marth Koopa · 2011-10-12, 02:23 PM

A good majority of those people are probably those that purchase illegal services such as currency/items, power leveling, and cheats.

Aaron · 2011-10-12, 02:54 PM

I got one of the emails...Oh boy.

Hamma · 2011-10-12, 03:26 PM

Originally Posted by Synnoc

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.

Yea agreed it seems to be more along those lines as opposed to a full scale hacking like last time around.

Lartnev · 2011-10-12, 03:57 PM

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.

none · 2011-10-12, 03:59 PM

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.

Crator · 2011-10-12, 04:50 PM

Ok, good. I was about to seriously question Sony's integrity if it was a perimeter breach again.

Traak · 2011-10-12, 10:07 PM

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.

Geist · 2011-10-12, 10:57 PM

Originally Posted by Synnoc

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.

Even so, I'm sure the majority of the public will still view this as the fault of Sony and it will lose even more of it's player base.

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.

Crator · 2011-10-12, 11:07 PM

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.

Lartnev · 2011-10-13, 02:06 PM

Originally Posted by Spectre

Even so, I'm sure the majority of the public will still view this as the fault of Sony and it will lose even more of it's player base.

Research shows this will only be in the short term then confidence will start to return.

Hamma · 2011-10-14, 07:15 PM

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.