In reply to a post by mrnelster:

When the network is back I will change my passwords and monitor my credit card bill. I'm certainly not scrapping all my credit cards and waiting weeks for new ones, based on conspiracy theories.

Hopefully not famous last words!

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I didn't risk it. I changed my card even though I never used it on PSN

Eh? Buy all your bits second hand. Preferably stock clocked stuff that people take pride over by taking pics of it. You can get a 4890 for around £70 or less, or a GTX 275 for £75.

My 2nd pc is still rocking a 8800GTX and a Q6600 to play WoW on high at 1440x900.
Played Bulletstorm on high at 1080p with my 4870 512mb (hitting the vram ceiling now) with a i5 750 and 8gb of ram. Ram is probably better to buy 1st hand since the low prices makes it hard for people to part with their ram for bargain prices.

Kevin Poulsen's piece, PlayStation Network Hack: Who Did It? also makes for interesting reading (particularly the last paragraphs).

Until Sony own up and give more information about who they believe actually carried out the attack then you've got to assume it was done for purely criminal reasons, nothing to do with proving a point etc.

If it were me, I'd be thinking about changing passwords and email addresses for any sites that held sensitive personal and/or financial information if they shared any critical user details like passwords, dob profile etc (like Facebook, Amazon and so on). At first, I was more inclined to feel this whole event had limited fall out but now I can't help but feel the lid on the proverbial can of worms is only just beginning to come off.

I'm wondering when/if this will ever happen to STEAM? I hope Valve have a better grasp on security than Sony. If they were breached then I'd have a lot of account changing to do.

With steam guard and stuff in place i'd say no, Gabe threw the challenge down with steamguard at an event a few months back, i havent heard of it being cracked. I would say valve is smart enough to properly encrypt stuff too.

Sonys downfall was pretty much built on their own arrogance, they didnt bother dealing with the issues when they first happened, they just tried to sue the world and now someone basically walked right up behind them and smashed their legs out from under them. Kinda had it coming.

Only time will tell if sony learns important lessons from everything thats happened recently

In reply to a post by FireFalcon:

With steam guard and stuff in place i'd say no, Gabe threw the challenge down with steamguard at an event a few months back, i havent heard of it being cracked. I would say valve is smart enough to properly encrypt stuff too.

That's reassuring to know. A much healthier attitude to show an interest in inviting people to actually test your security features out. One of the researchers commenting on the Sony story said that was the way internet companies should do things - by publishing details about their security and getting people to test it out for them rather than just being secretive and then failing catastrophically with no comeback at all, other than pulling the plug as Sony have done.

Still, it does make you wonder if you shouldn't revise your own personal security system. I'm not a total idiot when it comes to password security but I could do better. I rely on too few email addresses I think. Time for a change. Maybe. I should stop using 'password' for all my accounts I suppose.

On 1 May 2011, Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) and Sony Network Entertainment International (SNEI, the company) announced they will shortly begin a phased restoration by region of PlayStation Network and Qriocity services, beginning with gaming, music and video services to be turned on.

The company also announced both a series of immediate steps to enhance security across the network and a new customer appreciation programme to thank its customers for their patience and loyalty.

Following a criminal cyber attack on the company's data centre located in San Diego, California, USA, SNEI quickly turned off PlayStation Network and Qriocity services, engaged multiple expert information security firms over the course of several days, and conducted an extensive audit of the system.

Since then, the company has implemented a variety of new security measures to provide greater protection of personal information. SNEI and its third party experts have conducted extensive tests to verify the security strength of PlayStation Network and Qriocity services.

With these measures in place, SCE and SNEI plan to start a phased roll-out by region of the services shortly. The initial phase of the roll-out will include, but is not limited to, the following:

* Restoration of online gameplay across PlayStation 3 and PSP systems, including titles requiring online verification and downloaded games.
* Access to Q Music Unlimited for PS3/PSP for existing subscribers.
* Access to account management and password reset.
* Access to download unexpired movie rentals on PS3, PSP and Media Go.
* PlayStation Home.
* Friends List.
* Chat functionality.




http://uk.playstation.com/psn/news/articles/detail/i...

http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/2256239/Son...

Hmm, it was only 10 million that need to be changed. It was almost serious!

It will hurt Sony a good bit. Confidence is zero.

Personally feel the 10 million figure is the start of Sony damage limitation . 10 sounds allot better than 77 million .

Truth is nobody but Sony will know the true extent of what has happened , I'm confident of the fact , by Sony behaviour so far on this subject , not exactly forth coming with information , don't see that changing in the future .

Don't doubt that for a second. Sony has truely been pwned.

Let it be the beginning of the end for all.

This Millenium is based on GREED, and it would be good to see THAT end.

*Guesty moves off of his Golden LG Electronic Soap-Box v7.
**This post isn't endorsed by Game-Fast - Like Working Out, But It's For The PSN. NO POINT[S]!!