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SCEE Pays Big For 2011 Security Breach |
Listed in: News Tags: anonymous, hack, ico, psn, Sony
April 2011 was a tough time to be a Sony fan. During that month, the PlayStation Network was down for an astounding twenty-eight full days after a major security breach had been made by a hacktivist group called Anonymous. After giving us all a couple free games and identity theft protection in response for the outage, it seemed that all of the trouble was over, but if this fine is anything to go by, it seems SCEE might have to be ready to pay big.
In the UK, there is a legislative body known as the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and it is their main job to make sure that everybody's privacy and data rights are protected both on the web and in the real world. Obviously then, when the PlayStation brand supposedly exposed the personal information of its millions of users a few years back, they're going to have a problem with those kinds of dealings. In their own words, SCEE "let everybody down" because customers believed their servers were secure when in fact it didn't take groups too long to probe their way in.
As a response to these millions of accounts being leaked into the wrong hands, the ICO is looking for Sony's European division to pay up hugely for their mistakes in the form of 250,000 pounds. For those of you not so great at conversions, that equals about $332,500. While that's quite the price to pay, the ICO does say that they are trying to be forgiving because the hack was an unpredictable criminal attack in which no credit data was actually lost. Still, that doesn't mean Sony hasn't already done everything they can to fight this new ruling.
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it's common knowledge, i thought.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Network_outage
Unencrypted personal details
Credit card data was encrypted, but Sony admitted that other user information was not encrypted at the time of the intrusion.[44][57] The Daily Telegraph reported that "If the provider stores passwords unencrypted, then it's very easy for somebody else – not just an external attacker, but members of staff or contractors working on Sony's site – to get access and discover those passwords, potentially using them for nefarious means."[58] On May 2, Sony clarified the "unencrypted" status of users' passwords, stating that:[59]
While the passwords that were stored were not “encrypted,” they were transformed using a cryptographic hash function. There is a difference between these two types of security measures which is why we said the passwords had not been encrypted. But I want to be very clear that the passwords were not stored in our database in cleartext form.
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Sony Pictures Entertainment website hacking
The Sony website SonyPictures.com was hacked on 2 June 2011. Unencrypted passwords and personal information of Sony customers within the website's database were stolen.[68]
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It's like being fined by the cops cause someone broke into your house...
In the IT world, you know that there are going to be break ins. No system is 100% secure if connected to the outside world.
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It's more like someone breaking into a safe, where everyone entrusted you to keep their precious items safe because they believe you can protect it.
Also, I think the security could be good enough to stop these hackers, if they had their own staff try to hack into their own security and patched it up where the holes are.
Alas, Sony doesn't charge for its online service(excludi ng the optional PS+) and might not have enough money to pay their employees to do this every month+.
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Also, even though they have money from other sources, they might have figured it not important enough to spend money from those on their security for PS related things.
Of course as you said, this is speculation unless you work for Sony in a higher up position, or as an employee who manages security(I wouldn't work for Sony, if a job from them fell on me, just to find out though...)
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it was more than 1 reason why psn got hacked,geohot an linux was the reason i think the top reason why PSN got hacked. who help the hack also people that was spamming text u know send this to 50 friends an get 50$ on the psn put this code in to get COD maps. crazy thing i know better but u have alot wtf people online. guess what people are still doing it fake rewards 50$ come on 50$ times 2million sony would loose money
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