Anonymous claims PSN hack affecting 10 million
According to the 'hacker', a 50GB database of user information has been stolen, affecting some 10 million people.
A list of email addresses and seemingly encrypted passwords has been published, linked to via Anonymous' Twitter account.
But are the claims genuine? Evidence suggests not; as Kotaku reports, the list of supposed PSN email addresses released by the hacker appears to be a cut-and-paste of a previous and seemingly unrelated email list posted back in March.
Regardless, probably worth nipping online and changing your password, just in case.
Sony is yet to respond to requests for comment.
The threat of another PSN hack will be no small thing for PlayStation owners who endured weeks of PSN downtime and the threat of identity theft when the network was hit with a series of major attacks last year.
Update: Sony Computer Entertainment America's Shane Bettenhausen has deemed the claims "totally fake" via a Twitter post that has since seemingly been deleted.
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Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/363355/anonymous-claims-psn-hack-affecting-10-million/
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ChugJugPosted:
AcedGFX-Aced-VanPersie- Oh silly me I thought It was real lol.
Well they said its fake ! who knows
Its probably real and they are cobering it up so theres no bad publicity
Thats what i was thinking but they admitted it before so why not now?[/quotethe dont want to dig them selves down it 10 mill people bro
AcedPosted:
GFX-Aced-VanPersie- Oh silly me I thought It was real lol.
Well they said its fake ! who knows
Its probably real and they are cobering it up so theres no bad publicity
Thats what i was thinking but they admitted it before so why not now?
ChugJugPosted:
Aced-VanPersie- Oh silly me I thought It was real lol.
Well they said its fake ! who knows
Its probably real and they are cobering it up so theres no bad publicity
EmazedPosted:
Odd-Future-Wolf-Gang I tought this was real until it said "totally fake"
Yeah same here but glad to know it was fake.
MazurPosted:
Emazing-LightsMazurMinecartMazurBrownB0y7thst Thats why you buy an xbox 360...some of the money you pay for gold goes twards the firewalls
you do understand this wasn't real... lol
Lol, I don't think he knows. :D
he would know if he read the last bit of the article lol
Yeah it's just all in the matter of reading the article.
haha right a few kids on here don't read them they just post random crap thinking they're going to get that badge in no time. i don't even post on here for the badge, the news really interests me that's why i keep coming back
EmazedPosted:
MazurMinecartMazurBrownB0y7thst Thats why you buy an xbox 360...some of the money you pay for gold goes twards the firewalls
you do understand this wasn't real... lol
Lol, I don't think he knows. :D
he would know if he read the last bit of the article lol
Yeah it's just all in the matter of reading the article.
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