Anonymous claims PSN hack affecting 10 million

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A member of hacker group Anonymous has claimed to have hacked the PlayStation Network.

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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AcedPosted:

TuckShop xbox is better but if u like to mod and hack and **** ps3 is a lot easier


Thats true, but its mostly a matter of opinion

DeafPosted:

xbox is better but if u like to mod and hack and shit ps3 is a lot easier

PeetzuhPosted:

LaceUp Another reason why I own an Xbox 360


I have both know.

I told myself that of PSN ever gets hacked again I was going to go out and buy me an Xbox 360. I've had one before but it basically died and I just got a PS3 because I was a little tired of Xbox and now I'm pretty much back on Xbox. :/

LaceUpPosted:

Another reason why I own an Xbox 360

yayPosted:

zzirBlaze
Scanty
-AskingAlexandria
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Mazur
Tygaa Why do Anon keep going for PSN and not Xbox? I'm glad they're doing all of this to PSN and not Xbox because I would be pissed but why them?


well they did say that the accounts were all fake, but maybe they just do not like Sony lol


Because PS3 are naturally easier to hack, they just are and sony supports copyright laws


well really this is why PS3 is free, and xbox isnt. because xbox takes that money and gets protection and TUs thats why there are so many hackers on ps3 and very few on xbox


Exactly. That's why you see lots of 10th lobbies on PS3 and stuff, because the security is not that great.


You guys are f*cking retarded, all the hackers are on Xbox, not PS3. Who gives a flying f*ck if you run into a modded COD lobby.


Don't be angry because your security isn't that good :trollin:

Kidding, have you seen the posts in the ps3 section here? Its all modded lobbies!

PeetzuhPosted:

This is just crazy!

MazurPosted:

Human
Mazur
Tygaa Why do Anon keep going for PSN and not Xbox? I'm glad they're doing all of this to PSN and not Xbox because I would be pissed but why them?


well they did say that the accounts were all fake, but maybe they just do not like Sony lol


Because PS3 are naturally easier to hack, they just are and sony supports copyright laws


right, and Xbox pays for HQ protection, obviously sony doesn't, coming from that month or so downtime last year.

DazzleAgonyPosted:

zzirBlaze
Scanty
-AskingAlexandria
Human
Mazur
Tygaa Why do Anon keep going for PSN and not Xbox? I'm glad they're doing all of this to PSN and not Xbox because I would be pissed but why them?


well they did say that the accounts were all fake, but maybe they just do not like Sony lol


Because PS3 are naturally easier to hack, they just are and sony supports copyright laws


well really this is why PS3 is free, and xbox isnt. because xbox takes that money and gets protection and TUs thats why there are so many hackers on ps3 and very few on xbox


Exactly. That's why you see lots of 10th lobbies on PS3 and stuff, because the security is not that great.


You guys are f*cking retarded, all the hackers are on Xbox, not PS3. Who gives a flying f*ck if you run into a modded COD lobby.


First off they are not called "Hackers" they are defined as modders/ or game glitches. Second, the only modders tend to stick to games much easier to mod, such as Dead Island, Call of Duty4 and World at War. But since I own both systems, out of all the games I played I'd say they're are twice if not three times as many modders on ps3 as on xbox. Case closed.

CearnsyPosted:

zzirBlaze
Scanty
-AskingAlexandria
Human
Mazur
Tygaa Why do Anon keep going for PSN and not Xbox? I'm glad they're doing all of this to PSN and not Xbox because I would be pissed but why them?


well they did say that the accounts were all fake, but maybe they just do not like Sony lol


Because PS3 are naturally easier to hack, they just are and sony supports copyright laws


well really this is why PS3 is free, and xbox isnt. because xbox takes that money and gets protection and TUs thats why there are so many hackers on ps3 and very few on xbox


Exactly. That's why you see lots of 10th lobbies on PS3 and stuff, because the security is not that great.


You guys are f*cking retarded, all the hackers are on Xbox, not PS3. Who gives a flying f*ck if you run into a modded COD lobby.


Id rather be on xbox as id like to buy a game and do it legit not get into some lobby and get it all

EmazedPosted:

zzirBlaze
Scanty
-AskingAlexandria
Human
Mazur
Tygaa Why do Anon keep going for PSN and not Xbox? I'm glad they're doing all of this to PSN and not Xbox because I would be pissed but why them?


well they did say that the accounts were all fake, but maybe they just do not like Sony lol


Because PS3 are naturally easier to hack, they just are and sony supports copyright laws


well really this is why PS3 is free, and xbox isnt. because xbox takes that money and gets protection and TUs thats why there are so many hackers on ps3 and very few on xbox


Exactly. That's why you see lots of 10th lobbies on PS3 and stuff, because the security is not that great.


You guys are f*cking retarded, all the hackers are on Xbox, not PS3. Who gives a flying f*ck if you run into a modded COD lobby.

Many people do since if your always running into a modded lobby every game then the game is pretty much ruined like CoD: WaW & CoD4.


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