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US Congress wants PSN answers too

Posted Apr 29, 2011 at 11:21PM EST by Mabie A.

Listed in: News, PlayStation Network Tags: Kazuo Hirai, Sony

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A letter from the US Congress to Sony Computer Entertainment America president Kazuo Hirai has been leaked to the press, and they want answers like the rest of us do, too.

A House of Representative subcommittee wants Mr. Hirai to answer a list of detailed questions, in their quest to find out more about the PSN hacking that took hold of the whole PSN community for the past week.

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Said the letter, "We write today regarding the recent data breach experienced by Sony Corporation's PlayStation Network operated by Sony Computer Entertainment of America. According to Sony's statement, the breach occurred between April 17 and April 19, and impacted as many as 77 million account holders' personal information. A public acknowledgement of the breach was not made until APril 26."

Part of the things the subcommittee would want to know are questions on the type of data stolen by the hackers, and whether or not it did include any credit card information. They, as well as everyone else for sure, would also want to know if Sony has any knowledge as to the identity of the hackers, and when they reported the hack to the law enforcement.

Mr. Hirai is expected to reply to the inquiries by May 6th. The PlayStation Network has been down for almsot two weeks already, and nobody knows when it will get back online.

You can check out the full document here.

Via [NY Times]

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yeah really? You understand that gaming will fucking fall as hard as it can if this gets any worse you ungrateful moron. This won't just impact Sony. It will impact the entire scene. Yeah what they did was just as moronic as your bullshit comment there. But there trying, all of them are trying so if your a video game fan you oughta show a little bit more concern over the direness of this situation instead of allowing your fucktardedness fanboyism to show.

# RE: RE: RE: US Congress wants PSN answers too — EtnasPrinny 2011-04-30 02:15

Gaming can work without Sony. It worked when it was just Nintendo and Sony, and Microsoft is here so there's still competition. Those matters aside, I wonder if this is because of the collection of PS3's that are being used as a super computer. Also I hope Sony has a good answer, because they could be in hot water right now. I mean what if credit information for a government member was stolen(although I'm not sure why they would have real info on their PSN account)?

# RE: RE: RE: RE: US Congress wants PSN answers too — keith_ 2011-04-30 18:59

if credit info was stolen, then there will be a class-action suit, with the result being free credit monitoring for x months/years paid for by sony, and probably $25 or so in compensation or some other piddly amount.

# RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: US Congress wants PSN answers too — DeltaDAWG 2011-05-02 12:36

There's already a class action suit.

-2 # ... — Afrit 2011-04-30 08:23

I know what you mean.

It's just that some people can't see beyond the tip of their noses.

+1 # RE: US Congress wants PSN answers too — Angry Grammar Man 2011-04-30 01:36

Seriously, proof read your articles before you post them, Jesus.

-1 # >_> — mastershaker420 2011-04-30 01:40

if u dont like sony shut up remember wen u wish for sum one fail it come back and bite u harder all i read is blah blah and complains not all digital info 100% safe i know ppl get fustrated but ure not in sony shoes are u if not hush and no im not a fan i have all 3 and enjoy them glad i use psn and xbox pre paid card

-1 # RE: >_> — keith_ 2011-04-30 19:00

punctuation. it's a wonderful thing to use.

# RE: US Congress wants PSN answers too — Eric Horn 2011-04-30 01:45

I feel kind of bad for Sony. They did so well with the first two systems, but the PS3 broke out at too high a price, and the PSP only sold becuase of "homebrew". The PSP Go was a failure. The PS3 has a small fan base, but lacks in this current system race for several reasons, one being lack of content. Now everything that has happened, they lose personal data to hackers, allegedly. Now the government wants answers as to why it took about six days to tell everyone. I kind of want to know that one myself, though.

# RE: RE: US Congress wants PSN answers too — keith_ 2011-04-30 19:03

wtf?
psp only sold for homebrew? i'd say that less than 10% of the ones that sold are hacked. how many thousands, if not millions, of kid out there just want to play games on a portable system?
ps3 has a small fan base? define "small" - as opposed to the entire population of the planet?

and how does the ps3 lack content? just about every game that comes out is released for every system, with the exception of maybe 10-15% of titles that are platform-exclusive, of which sony has several as well.

# Jelster — JohanMGO 2011-04-30 01:57

Are you know as an idiot in your town? I don't think Sony did us wrong, all u have to do is follow up with your bank, change your info and your debit card/credit card info that's it. If the hackers takes anything from you ( I hope not) just report it and youll get w.e they steal back

# RE: Jelster — keith_ 2011-04-30 19:04

or better yet, just buy PSN network cards and buy stuff that way.

-1 # RE: US Congress wants PSN answers too — deadspace666 2011-04-30 01:59

sony is a good company not sure y these hackers have guff with i think it should been xbox there the one makein people pay to play fuck u Gates u probably did this greedy bitch

# RE: US Congress wants PSN answers too — deadspace666 2011-04-30 02:01

but seriously keep us updated sony day in detail no beaten around the bush

-3 # RE: US Congress wants PSN answers too — Jelster 2011-04-30 02:20

Quoting lordrand11:

Quoting Jelster:
Well, i rather hope not. I am so immensily dissapointed how Sony is treating us i want to see them fall as deep as they can.

We still dont know shit, and if it wasnt for forums and irc, we even know lesser then shit.

Thanks Sony for your work these years, now its time to perish. Goodbye.

yeah really? You understand that gaming will fucking fall as hard as it can if this gets any worse you ungrateful moron. This won't just impact Sony. It will impact the entire scene. Yeah what they did was just as moronic as your bullshit comment there. But there trying, all of them are trying so if your a video game fan you oughta show a little bit more concern over the direness of this situation instead of allowing your fucktardedness fanboyism to show.

Brave little boy. You really dont understand what is happening here, apperantly.

Have you followed news lately? PS3 is hacked months ago...and what did Sony do?

They used their strength and money to fight people who opened up the machine. Yes? Do you get it? No money and work to defense for the flaw itself. Results?

OtherOS gone, PSN gone, and our UNENCRYPTED personal information gone.

The whole server was on a 4 year old Linux server, ffs! Is that security? For a multi million dollar company, Sony is lazy and arrogant.

And you, sir...are worse because your just like a Republican who is defending why people should have a gun in their pocket.

Die, Sony die. And i hope before you make any more mistakes.

+2 # RE: RE: US Congress wants PSN answers too — lordrand11 2011-04-30 02:29

Quote:

Brave little boy. You really dont understand what is happening here, apperantly.

Have you followed news lately? PS3 is hacked months ago...and what did Sony do?

They used their strength and money to fight people who opened up the machine. Yes? Do you get it? No money and work to defense for the flaw itself. Results?

OtherOS gone, PSN gone, and our UNENCRYPTED personal information gone.

The whole server was on a 4 year old Linux server, ffs! Is that security? For a multi million dollar company, Sony is lazy and arrogant.

And you, sir...are worse because your just like a Republican who is defending why people should have a gun in their pocket.

Die, Sony die. And i hope before you make any more mistakes.

Is that so? Then what about you? You want a corporation to be taken down and fall as hard as they possibly could. You didn't read my comment "he who thinks awesomely of himself". I don't and won't condone what Sony did, however, I don't want it affecting the entire gaming community which is something your mind can't seem to comprehend. Can you not see that that's what Sony wanted? They wanted to show the the "world" (hackers) that they would come after them because they didn't know how to fix the issue without having to shut off the entire PSN (which is where we're at right now). You accuse me of something you are hypocritically defending yourself. Good Job. Both you and I have shown the world how big of an asshole we both are. I applaud your intelligence as well as your belligerence. Adieu.

+2 # ... — SeRosiS 2011-04-30 04:48

You guys do know that Sony isn't exclusively a Video Game/Console company right?

-1 # RE: US Congress wants PSN answers too — lol if you guys hate 2011-04-30 02:32

sony so much why are you buying their shit? Sony>>>You, they make money off of people who hate them, so who's the real losers?

as for me who has a PS+ account, i could really careless if my information was stolen, because aside from the fact that my bank would without question refund all and any money that could possibly be stolen from me and just hand me a new card with a new number,

playstation 3 is the greatest console to date, and i love it, and love my PSP, and will love my future NGP

-1 # >.> — mastershake420 2011-04-30 02:51

ignore jelster he just trolling cause he a fanboy of xbox curse sum 1 to fail it will com back and bite u in the a$$

# RE: >.> — lordrand11 2011-04-30 17:28

Quoting mastershake420:

ignore jelster he just trolling cause he a fanboy of xbox curse sum 1 to fail it will com back and bite u in the a$$

Maybe he is, I'm just trying to get the point across that this is a little bit bigger than Sony. It will affect all the game companies.

-1 # ... — rageeeeeeeanger 2011-04-30 03:06

People still blame Sony for hackers' jackass-like moves...?

I don't care if the key to the servers was hanging on a pole outside a Sony building below a sign that read "Key to fucking with our shit - plz dun take, k?" - the fact of the matter is that shitheads robbed Sony (and us, in turn) and those are the shitheads to get mad at. Sony's not stealing your credit card information to sell off to people. Sony didn't buy the info back because that sends a clear signal to hackers that they can do it again and again because corporations will just keep paying to get the info back (even though the hackers would probably just keep copies of the info anyways). Seriously, what would you have done? Do you think the hackers are in the right here? Really?

If I break into your house and steal your money and some stuff you told your friends you'd hang onto, would it be right for your friends to blame you for getting robbed because you didn't have seventy-six bodyguards patrolling your property 24-hours a day? No - the douchebag who broke in through your bathroom window would be the one you'd want to hunt down.

FUCK OFF WITH THIS SHIT ALREADY. These hackers would've cracked any other company's servers if they had the motive to regardless of security measures. The only thing that is unhackable is the thing no one tries to hack.

+1 # RE: ... — HangmanSwingset 2011-04-30 16:57

No, but if I left my keys on a park bench with a sticky note next to them with my address, computer passwords, and times I won't be home written on it, I'd be a fucking retard. And trust me, my friends would let me know that fact.

# RE: US Congress wants PSN answers too — Demi-Robb 2011-04-30 03:14

I'm just going to say this, Sony is not an evil company, they're just stupid. They made a lot of mistakes with the PS3 which led to the PSN hacking. Lazy, yeah. Arrogant, sort of if you think about. Removing the PS2 backwards capatability from the PS3 instead of inproving it just to reduce production cost and using it as a marketing plan for people to ONLY focus on PS3 game, lazy. Putting an OtherOS feature so linux can run on the PS3 just to show everyone that the PS3 is better than all the consoles, arrogant as hell until it was used for hacking purposes. And also constant layers of security per update without any features added to the system and not really giving what the people want.On top of that, their so called strongest security was cracked like an egg due to being lazy with the security. So yeah, Sony is just stupid. It's the end of Sony as we know it.

# RE: US Congress wants PSN answers too — AssassinXCV 2011-04-30 03:59

FUCK THIS SHIT!!!! MY EMAIL IS GOING TO BE FULL OF GAY PORN AND MASS AMOUNTS OF SPAM!!! FUCK YOU SONY, UR LUCKY YOUR ASS ISN'T BEING RAPED BY BASEBALL BATS WITH NAILS THROUGH THEM!!!!!

-2 # RE: RE: US Congress wants PSN answers too — AssassinXCV 2011-04-30 04:01

FUCK YOU SONY!!! I HOPE PEOPLE COME AND WELD PIECES OF METAL TO THE SKIN OF YOUR EMPLOYEES!!!!! TIME FOR YOU TO FEEL WHAT IT'S LIKE TO GET BURNED!!!!

-1 # ^ — rageeeeeeeanger 2011-04-30 04:03

tool.

+4 # RE: RE: US Congress wants PSN answers too — Musev 2011-04-30 04:47

Quoting AssassinXCV:

FUCK THIS SHIT!!!! MY EMAIL IS GOING TO BE FULL OF GAY PORN AND MASS AMOUNTS OF SPAM!!! FUCK YOU SONY, UR LUCKY YOUR ASS ISN'T BEING RAPED BY BASEBALL BATS WITH NAILS THROUGH THEM!!!!!

you mean, at least you have an excuse to why your email account has loads of gay porn emails

# RE: RE: RE: US Congress wants PSN answers too — thundeh 2011-04-30 16:50

lmao nice

# I know the time — Coco Davis 2011-04-30 04:03

It'll be back up before Tuesday

# RE: US Congress wants PSN answers too — Walo 2011-04-30 04:07

I'm pretty the congressmen are not the only people who want a detailed explanation of what happened...

+1 # RE: US Congress wants PSN answers too — PS360 Owner1 2011-04-30 05:17

This whole drama will end by Tuesday, hopefully.

# RE: US Congress wants PSN answers too — Churchx 2011-04-30 06:32

I think Sony announced tht the service will return by the 1-3 of May
dont take my word on it though as it is a rumour

# Sony must regret... — ViNGaDoR 2011-04-30 07:59

Sony must regret. Kaz Hirai must fall and the company must make a public apology for removing the otheros (at least), otherwise, the company are doomed to loose bilions, because this tipe of attacks will not cease. Their executives doesnt understand that they are facing legions of hackers that want to punish then for their arrogance. They was just waiting to see what comes from the Geohotz teatrical motion to judge Sony and comence the attacks. I just hope Sony learns from this mistakes and leave the people do what they want with their consoles.

# RE: US Congress wants PSN answers too — PlaySter 2011-04-30 08:14

The PlayStation Network has been down for almsot two weeks already.. 2nd week hardly even started

# Sick of This Crap — Tanner 2011-04-30 08:27

I just want the damn PSN back up. I'm sick and tired of fanboys trashing Sony about this thing as it has been said many times before that it could have happened on Xbox Live as well (which would be worse considering there's probably more than 77 million people on XBL). The attack isn't limited to the fact Sony' irresponsible. That Sony should die because of ONE goddamn PSN hack (I don't count Anon's attempt as it was to prove they could take it down when they thought they were doing the gamers a favor because of Geohot).

All the 'hackers' from the past (Anon and Geohot) claim to have nothing to do with this and I believe them. However, I've also heard the rumor that the European hacker (German or something) that was being sued for 1 million Euros did it because his life was fucked anyway, so he wanted to screw everyone else over as well. But that's just what I heard.

# c ya $ony — $ony sucks 2011-04-30 10:27

With the profits $ony makes there is no reason this should have happened. They could have done alot more to protect our info. When the ps3 first started getting hacked people where saying our info stored on ps3 was not encrypted and upload as a .txt. I don't put my credit info on there and I am glad. You can never trust company's to protect you not there job. There job is profit only. And since they took my other os I would like to c something taken from them. Screw $ony I don't need them!

# lmao — Ipadboy 2011-04-30 13:46

Quoting $ony sucks:

With the profits $ony makes there is no reason this should have happened. They could have done alot more to protect our info. When the ps3 first started getting hacked people where saying our info stored on ps3 was not encrypted and upload as a .txt. I don't put my credit info on there and I am glad. You can never trust company's to protect you not there job. There job is profit only. And since they took my other os I would like to c something taken from them. Screw $ony I don't need them!

Quoting $ony sucks:

With the profits $ony makes there is no reason this should have happened. They could have done alot more to protect our info. When the ps3 first started getting hacked people where saying our info stored on ps3 was not encrypted and upload as a .txt. I don't put my credit info on there and I am glad. You can never trust company's to protect you not there job. There job is profit only. And since they took my other os I would like to c something taken from them. Screw $ony I don't need them!

Sony will never be taken down in the near future you idiot. Who cares if their GAMING system has been hacked or will be cancelled? What about all their other products that gain millions in profits? Movies, Televisions,Ele ctronics etc. Besides, most people do not even play Online or even buy things on the PSN with their actual credit card, which is why they have The PSN 20$+ Gift Card... because people know that there is a chance of it getting stolen....

# RE: US Congress wants PSN answers too — asda 2011-04-30 18:03

and nobody knows when it will get back online

they already stated it will be fixed on the first week of may
why do you post news without reading official announcements?

# Hah. — FezMo 2011-04-30 21:30

You poor fools, ill take my rrod xbox over my data being stolen any day. And guess what, i fixed my xbox with 10$ 2 years ago and am playing online right now, as i have for the last 2 weeks.
Sonyfail.

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