At 12 AM Central on May 1st the Representative Corporate Executive Officer, Kazuo Hirai, did a press conference with the senior vice presidents Shinki Hasejima and Shiro Kambe. They announced that they had indeed experienced external intrusion by some "Skilled people who covered all of their tracks." If you want to see the details of the press conference just read more!

They announced that everything stolen was as followed,

• -Name
• -Date of birth
• -Address
• -Email
• -Password
• -PSN
• -Credit Card's
• -Lists of all purchases

Luckily, your security questions have NOT been compromised!


Shinki Hasejima then goes on to explain how the firewalls between the servers were bypassed with a few diagrams which can be found here, Image 1 and here, Image 2 . He explains how the 'hacker' used tunnels to get in and out of the servers when grabbing the information.


Kazuo Hirai says, "10 million users DID have credit cards and have been exploited and compromised. All servers have been moved to San Diego where the security is far more advanced and we have taken a lot more security into mind to ensure this will not happen again." "PS3 WILL have a system software update that will require all users to change their PSN emails and passwords."


Playstation is allowing customers to sign in to check all recent purchases on the Playstation Network to ensure the customers are not being exploited. Sony will NOT contact customers under any circumstances asking for any personal information.


They will be giving selected content for free, and 30 days free service to Playstation Plus says Kazuo Hirai.


Full services will be restored sometime this month, including the PSN store and all online games, sometime this month. Keep in mind, it is May now.


Sony has announced that they have received threats from "Anonymous" that every single Sony Staff members families have been exploited with phone calls to their works and children’s schools. Anon has also done a "Sit-In" at Sony stores.


"Again, we would like to offer our deepest apologies to our millions of customers for allowing them to be compromised and removing our services for an extended period of time, thank you very much, this concludes our presentation."

"Passwords used on the Playstation Network were not encrypted in anyway."

Posted: May 01, 2011 12:53 am