Published at: 05:05 am - Saturday May 21 2011
Sony’s So-Net Entertainment subsidiary was hacked by intruders who made off with about $1,200 worth of virtual points, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The hacker stole the points from about 128 accounts and was able to read email from about 90 accounts, the Associated Press said. The Japan-based mobile Internet service provider said […]
Published at: 06:05 pm - Wednesday May 18 2011
Four days after the PlayStation Network reopened, Sony has taken down login and password recovery pages for the service following reports they contained a serious flaw that was actively exploited to hijack user accounts. The vulnerability, which was first reported by UK-based gaming news site Nyleveia.com, required only that an attacker know the date of […]
Published at: 01:05 pm - Saturday May 14 2011
The hackers who breached the security of Sony’s PlayStation network and gained access to sensitive data for 77 million subscribers used Amazon’s web services cloud to launch the attack, Bloomberg News reported. The attackers rented a server from Amazon’s EC2 service and penetrated the popular network from there, the news outlet said, citing an unnamed […]
Published at: 10:05 pm - Friday May 13 2011
Security analysts have narrowed down the probable causes of the infamous Sony PlayStation Network breach. Sony is slowly restoring its PlayStation Network and Online Entertainment service following a hack that exposed the personal details of 77 million PlayStation Network gamers and (separately, but more than likely duplicate data) 25 million customers of its Online Entertainment […]
Published at: 11:05 pm - Sunday May 08 2011
A week after a humiliating public apology for the insecurity of its PlayStation Network and Qriocity service, Sony has been forced to delay the restart of its online games services. Sony, whose officials had repeatedly bowed as part of their self-abasement for the service crisis, has taken low-key approach to extending the PSN return-to-service delay, […]
Published at: 06:05 pm - Wednesday May 04 2011
Digital Forensic investigators investigating the security breach on Sony’s PlayStation Network found a file on one of the hacked systems that was titled “Anonymous” and contained the phrase “We are Legion,” the company’s chairman told members of congress. The revelation, made in a letter, (PDF here) that Sony Chairman Kazuo Hirai sent on Tuesday to […]
Published at: 03:05 pm - Wednesday May 04 2011
Sony has drafted in security experts to figure out who hacked into its systems – and how they did it – before stealing personal data on 100 million consumers of the company’s services. Both the firm’s PlayStation Network and Online Entertainment service remain suspended in the aftermath of high-profile hack attacks that have turned Sony […]
Published at: 06:05 pm - Tuesday May 03 2011
It is probable that the personal information breached in this latest round of Sony security breaches is of duplicate data to that which was breached belonging to the previus 70 million users. Sony warned that personally identifiable information for an additional 25 million customers was exposed after discovering a massive security breach extended to its online computer […]
Published at: 03:05 pm - Monday May 02 2011
Sony shut down its website for online PC games on Monday, almost two weeks after it closed the PlayStation Network following a criminal intrusion that stole personally identifiable information from 77 million account holders. The move by Sony Online Entertainment affects online playing of games such as Everquest, Dungeon Overlord, and Free Realms, and comes […]
Published at: 10:05 pm - Sunday May 01 2011
Sony is getting ready to return to service some PlayStation Network offerings, amid ongoing analysis to try and identify the source of the April attack on its San Diego data centre hosted in an AT&T network facility. While maintaining that it has not yet seen any evidence that credit card data was compromised in the […]