PSN has credit card info of quite of their customers. If PSN got hacked, downtime is not the only thing I'd be worried about.
I'm not sure being hacked automatically gives the hackers access to everything... there's still gonna be a ton of military-grade encryption on card info and stuff. Interesting to note that Anonymous posted a message saying "for once we didn't do it" and Sony has suggested the attack was coming from somewhere in Japan.
I don't believe that BS, they're just covering up one of their own mistakes like servers going down so everyone will be like oh it's all the hackers fault. It's just an easy scapegoat.
I'm not too sure, they're getting a lot of criticism about how they're handling this. Apparently they went a whole 24 hours before they knew what was happening so it's not as though they're getting off easy, whatever the problem is they're still in trouble.
Yea that's what I'm kinda freaking out about right now... I'd imagine that info is heavily encrypted, but still unsettling to say the least...
Is it still possible for the "hacker" to gain full access to peoples' information while the server's down?
Well currently isn't just speculation on what type of attack this was? If it was a ddos attack then information may not necessarily be compromised. Then again if someone was able to actually gain access to the servers and capture data now that would be scary! Encrypted or not that's a lot of potential liability...
pissed off the wrong geeks looks like Sony really pissed off the wrong geeks. Theres an assosiation of hackers that have promised to make life miserable for PS fans, because Sony pulled free backwords compatability and Linux from the PS3. I don't condone criminal activity but I understand their (the hackers) frustrations, Sony could have avoided this with some better Public Relations. Thet acted rather calously with their core fans and the core fans are stricking back. Anyway, I always prefered XBOX. Personal choice. AS for Credit Card info, as anyone involved in electronic business knows, it is very unlikly that the information would be heavily encrypted. In fact, there is likly no encryption at the data base level. If you gave your CC to play station network, you might consider contacting your CC company just in case.
Damn, cant take anymore of this. Just when id planned to spare a couple of hours toplay online, this sh*t comes along.
Ikr. Im on my last two days of my week off... What a crappy ending to it. Hope after this gets fixed sony will really get serious on their security and encryptions.
